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A Thirty-Week Devotional Journey for Whole-Person Formation
Build shared language for noticing and discussing formation over thirty weeks.
Wonder Words is a thirty-week Christian devotional journey for educators, families, and communities seeking a shared language for whole-person formation.
Read the full descriptionHow do you give a learning community words for the growth that grades cannot fully describe?
Wonder Words is a thirty-week Christian devotional journey for educators, families, and communities seeking a shared language for whole-person formation. Each week centers one word within the biblical story and connects it with reflection, practice, questions, and prayer.
Across three movements—receiving God’s forming grace, practicing the way of Christ, and joining God’s renewing work—the journey attends to courage, wisdom, belonging, responsibility, service, calling, and more. These are not labels to attach to students or scores to assign to their spiritual lives. They are invitations to notice and respond with greater clarity and care.
Use the book for personal reflection or as the starting point for a shared weekly conversation. Book 3 of the seven-book Wayfinder Educational Architecture, Wonder Words develops Language for recognizing growth while keeping grace at the center.
Thirty weekly Wonder Words
Scripture, prayer, conversation, and intentional practice
Receiving, practicing, and joining
Identity, character, belonging, and calling
Christian educators, school communities, and families.
Book 03 in the Wayfinder Educational Architecture. This volume contributes Language to a connected account of educational responsibility. The seven contributions work together; they are not a seven-step procedure or seven labels for a learner.
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Dr. R. C. Titus is an author, researcher, and educator whose work explores whole-person formation, educational psychology, emotional intelligence, and the ways learning shapes who people are becoming. As Director of the SNU Lab School and Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Southern Nazarene University, he brings together research, educational practice, and Christian formation to help educators and leaders cultivate environments where people can grow in wisdom, character, belonging, and purpose.
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