Research into Resources
The American consumerism narrative seeks to write the identity of adolescents for them. As youth workers we have the responsibility to better understand this narrative, and the opportunity to help rewrite a counternarrative that can shape kids’ identities toward the kingdom of God.
“We are living in exponential times.”
That’s one of the opening statements from the video played at the opening of the Teens in Tech conference last week (organized by a 16 year old). The stats are really interesting. We haven’t…
Last week I took my eight year-old son, Nathan, to Chinatown in Los Angeles for Chinese New Year Festivities. I had never seen a real “Dragon Parade” live and Nathan and I got a kick out of the dragons, the…
Recently Doug Schaupp, co-author of Being White: Finding our Place in a Multiethnic World and a regional director for InterVarsity campus ministries, trained a local group of youth workers through our Los Angeles Youth Ministry Network on race relationships and moving beyond talk of “reconciliation” to actively building justice in our lives and ministries.
Continuing our series on faith identity formation, this article explores the importance of the process of “Moratorium” in faith exploration and offers practical ideas for youth workers to ride with students toward their long-term commitment to Christ.
The latest research on what’s happening with college freshmen and their faith identity might surprise you. Meredith Miller reviews the research and excerpts from an interview with Tony Jones on the “lockbox theory.”
In Part II of this research series on changes in the landscape of adolescent girls, we take a look at the technology that most impacts girls you know and some ways we can all respond.
Kara Powell interviews Tony Jones, National Coordinator of Emergent Village and popular author and speaker. Tony and Kara discuss insights related to research on the college transition.
Kara Powell talks with Efrem Smith, pastor of Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, who helps us bust some of the myths and embrace some of the realities of an emerging urban-suburban blend in culture and our youth ministries.
Recently Fuller hosted Christian Smith, author of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, for a panel discussion following a screening of the new film documenting his research. Also called Soul Searching, the film screening led into a discussion with responses by Dr. Chap Clark and Dr. Kara Powell from Fuller, as well as Smith. This month’s audio download features highlights from the responses of Clark, Powell, and Smith to the film and the research from the National Study of Youth and Religion.
