Practicing Discernment with Youth
Practicing Discernment with Youth Throughout history youth have been at the center of their communities' energy and creativity, including their efforts to seek faith and justice. This book traces the…
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Practicing Discernment with Youth
Throughout history youth have been at the center of their communities' energy and creativity, including their efforts to seek faith and justice. This book traces the modern domestication of adolescence from its ancient roots through several key moments of its descent into passivity. However, today's adolescents have been relegated as passive learners and consumers, lacking full adult power for longer than any age cohort in history.
The church and the broken world need the gifts of youth. Empowering youth as agents of Christian faith in the world is not only a social need, but is theologically warranted. This book elaborates four pedagogical movements--listening, understanding, remembering/dreaming, and acting--as key for noticing and nurturing the faith commitments of youth.
Too much of contemporary youth ministry represents an attempt to pump energy into our youth--to get them excited
Discernment
Practicing Forgiveness
Practicing Thankfulness
Practicing Peace
Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy
Practicing Communication Ethics
Practicing the Great Perfection