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"As a parent whose faith has deconstructed and evolved, I believe Growing in God’s Love: A Family Devotional is a godsend. It is hopeful, reflective, and truly safe for the whole family to enjoy together."—Matthew Paul Turner, New York Times best-selling author of What Is God Like? and When God Made YouThis family devotional offers readings and conversations that will help you grow closer to God and one another, whether you are sitting around the dinner table or gathering for bedtime.Grown-ups and kids can immerse themselves in the stories of Scripture, wrestle with big questions, and learn together how to live out their faith in the world. As part of the Growing in God’s Love family of resources, daily readings explore and apply Scripture with theology you can trust, with substantive, progressive lessons in faith for all generations.Each day’s focus text can be read from the Growing in God’s Love: A Story Bible or a Bible translation of your choosing. After each devotion, respond to one or more of the Discuss, Discover, and Do prompts to process and expand on the lessons together. Growing in God’s Love: A Family Devotional is adaptable for use with all ages, abilities, and attention spans and makes faith formation at home easy.

This fortieth volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics focuses on economic inequality in later life. Cutting-edge chapters discuss the complex factors that can lead to advancing our understanding of economic inequalities. The volume includes perspectives on the changing pathways in later life, retirement income and security, race and associated advantages and disadvantages, and social rights for the elderly. The contributions in this volume discuss state-of-the-art research and keen insights into this increasingly important topic.Key Topics:Reconstructing Work and Retirement: Changing Pathways and Inequalities in Late LifeNeoliberalism and the Future of Retirement SecurityFamilies in Later Life: A Consequence and Engine of Social InequalitiesIncreasing Risks, Costs, and Retirement Income InequalityIntentionality, Power, and Systemic Processes: Race and the Study of Cumulative Dis/AdvantageSocial Rights of the Elderly as Part of the New Human Rights Agenda: Non-contributory Pensions in Civil Society in Mexico

The 41st volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, "Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter," reflects an important moment in the continuing development and maturation of research and scholarship on the lives of older Black Americans. The volume includes literature reviews and empirical analyses on a broad range of topics, including physical and mental health status, psychosocial factors and health, biomarkers, cognitive health, social networks and relationships, social isolation and loneliness, marriage and romantic relationships, discrimination, and cancer caregiving within the family context. In addition, it examines issues familiar to gerontology, such as relationships with family, intimate partners, and fictive kin. The collected works in this volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics greatly enrich the understanding of the diversity of life experiences of older Black adults.Key Topics:Racial Discrimination and discrimination-related copingStress Processes and mental healthPhysical functioning and genomicsMarital and romantic relationship satisfactionPsychosocial resources and mental health