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Since the middle of the 20th century, noted Old Testament scholars and theologians like Bernard Anderson, Hans Frei, Craig Bartholomew, and Michael Goheen have raised the concern that the contemporary church not only has lost reading and understanding the Old Testament as story, but that this loss has hindered its spiritual formation. While affirming their concern, qualitative research composed of interviews, narrative descriptions, and questionnaires of 138 college-aged students who largely identify with the Evangelical tradition will be presented showing that when the Old Testament is recovered as story, God is encountered, transformation is experienced, and faith is developed.

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When parents enroll a child in an early childhood program they quickly learn that their child has begun living an independent life in which it can be hard to feel a part. By its very nature, nursery and day care can cause parents to feel cut-off and isolated from crucial aspects of their children's daily experience (Provence, Naylor & Patterson, 1977). After knowing every bit of food that was eaten, toy that was used, book that was "read," and person with whom an interaction occurred, parents are suddenly left with a mystery to solve --finding out about their child's life when they are apart.Playing "detective" is not always easy! Parents' efforts to learn more about the interesting and important events in their child's life at school are often frustrating. Even when teachers plan their schedules so that they have time to greet and chat with parents at arrival and departure times, they rarely have the time to share with parents all but the most importan t details about a child's day. And, parents, who are generally sensitive to the fact that teachers are very busy, do not want to demand too much of the teacher's time in order to seek additional information unless there is a "serious" issue to discuss. Thus, a large part of what happens in the life of a given child at school cannot be communicated during these necessarily brief meetings between teachers and parents at arrival and departure times.