Word: wafers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...desire to sleep late on Sunday. Some feel that watered-down liberalism has driven serious parents away. Yet modern attempts to replace Bible stories with complicated theology can confuse young children. A five-year-old girl, wrestling with the concept of transubstantiation, asked: "If I eat the wafer, will it bleed?" Some churches have given up on teaching teenagers. Even in the lower grades, when children love storytelling and are at their most impressionable, Sunday school programs sometimes degenerate into weekend playpens whose inmates kill time filling in biblical coloring books. Offering "one cheer for the 200-year-old Sunday...