I'm glad you've joined me on this page. Perhaps you have theological stirrings too. Maybe you've come to new understandings of how God works in your life and others. It seems the older I get, the more questions I have. Perhaps that's because as I reflect I see unanswered questions that I wasn't prepared to challenge, previously.
      Madeleine L'Engle, often criticized for her theological position by Christians, was also criticized by some secular press as being too Christian. Because she didn't seem to fit in either perspective, she apparently made her way somewhere down through the middle creating a following who could, without problem, explore theological truths for themselves.
One of her statements has always challenged me, perhaps because I taught Sunday school for a long time before entering the ministry. Because her father slept late in the morning, due to illness, "there was no one to take me to Sunday School. I have talked with such a surprising number of people who have had to spend most of their lives unlearning what some well-meaning person taught them in Sunday School, that I'm glad I escaped!" (Walking on Water, p. 58)
Fortunately as a child, I had excellent Sunday school teachers, all of whom were women and for the most part related to one another and to me as we were a small rural community.  Bessie lived a faithful and devoted Christian life, (second cousin of my mother's); Beatrice, (my first cousin) who also lived the same kind of life devoted to following in the Christian faith and Florence, another disciple and faithful servant of Christ in the church.
As I reflect back, it is not so much what these women taught me in facts and figures, but the love in which they taught helped me to feel God's love and acceptance in my life.
As these women had opportunity to see me 'grow in wisdom and stature', I too have been able to see some of my Grade V Sunday school class develop in faith and service. Truly a daunting experience.
So, in answer to L'Engle's statement, I don't feel I have a lot to unlearn, but I do think children should be encouraged to challenge traditional thought, ask questions and struggle with some of the established truths. Children’s questions can be very thought provoking which help them develop a working theology even as they are being mentored by loving elders.
My question: How did one of your Sunday school teachers reveal a glimpse of the Kingdom of God to you?
THEOLOGICAL STIRRINGS