AMELIA RICHARDSON DRESS is a United Church of Christ pastor in Longmont, Colorado. She has experience supporting families inside and outside of the church, including working as an early intervention consultant for the Department of Human Services. Amelia has written for Parents, Exchange, and Children’s Ministry Magazine, and for online publications including Spiritual Parent,Build Faith, and MOPS Magazine. Her daughter was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, so Dress knows first-hand what it means to live with both anxiety and purpose.

“As a parent who is deeply connected to faith as well as the values of kindness, justice, and mercy, I often long for guidance on the journey toward parenting resilient, tolerant, and spiritually healthy children. Dress is a thoughtful conversation partner who has given us a great gift in The Hopeful Family, which is full of practical and actionable advice. The study questions in each chapter make it an incredibly practical resource for individual and group study. Thank you, Amelia, for creating a needed resource for such a time as this.”—Traci Smith, author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home

"Amelia Richardson Dress has written a timely and extraordinary guide that encourages parents to explore faith through the eyes of their children. It provides a framework on which parents can build and understand faith-based practices at home that will produce and sustain much-needed hope in their family lives. An inspiring, optimistic read."—Sophfronia Scott, author with her son Tain Gregory of This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World