Companion
The Only One: No Religion
Everyone talks about church and you don't have one.
Not going to church is a choice, not a mistake. This book helps you explain it.
For the Children in non-religious families who find themselves working through questions about church and religion from peers and teachers — and who need a book that helps them understand and articulate their own family's choices
The Name It First Experience
Your family doesn't go to church. Or a temple. Or a mosque. When everyone else talks about their weekend at religious services, you might not know what to say. This book is for that — for the things that are true about your family that are different from other families, and why different is okay. You will write and draw the things that are true about your family: what you believe, what matters to you, what your family does instead. You will make your own page.
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Sample questions
- What do you want to document about your family's values and the framework that guides you?
- What do you want your children to understand about how your family finds meaning and makes ethical choices?
- What is it like to be in a household without religion in a world that often assumes everyone has one — and what has that shaped in you?
- What do you believe — and how did you arrive at those beliefs without a religious tradition to organize them?
Research basis
Grounded in secular identity development research / moral development without religious framework (Kohlberg / Nucci) / values education theory / and children's philosophical identity formation.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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