YouthScape
Talking Ministry, Young People, and COVID-19 with Phoebe Hill
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The Attack of the Zombies
Note: This article is an adaptation of chapter three of The Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church (Nashville: Abingdon, 2010). This excerpt was extracted and edited by Jonathan Davis. Preface: In conversations about the future of youth ministry or the need for the church to attend to young adults,…
Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Science
Sometimes our jobs in youth ministry seem close to impossible. Most of us assume we’re given these young people with fragile faith. Someone, somehow, has communicated to us in some indirect way that it is our job to project these delicate balloons. The good youth worker is the person who is able to get young…
Who Am I? Adolescent Identity in the Digital Age
Michelle and Madison were under the same roof but in two different worlds. They were thousands of miles apart though only 30 feet separated them. Both sat looking at their own computer screens: Madison video-Skyping with her neighbor and a foreign exchange student, updating her Flickr account and checking her photo ratings; Michelle, her mother,…
Church Times
Love for Our Children in the Time of Covid-19 WHEN my latest book was published last month, my publisher and I thought that its title — The End of Youth Ministry? — would be provocative enough to draw attention. We never thought that it would be prophetic. Now, a few weeks into the pandemic, for most congregations…
