by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | RESEARCH, Youth
In 2008 I was involved in running focus groups in Adelaide as part of Search Institute’s global youth spirituality project. The project involved a survey of nearly 7,000 young people and 175 focus groups across 17 countries. This was the first step in refining a...
by admin | Mar 26, 2022 | RESEARCH, Youth
A decade ago I suggested that research regarding the spirituality of young people gave insufficient attention to the place of technology in their lives. “Young peoples’ innate desires for intimacy and self-transcendence are bound up in their daily use of...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | Worship, WRITING
Here is a table a conversation with friends a connection of hearts a communion of spirit Here is a meal a morsel of peace an entré of justice a hunger for heaven Here is a promise firing our hope filling our faith focusing our vision Here we gather open table open...
by admin | Mar 25, 2022 | LEARNING, Youth & Young Adults
We have tomatillos growing in our garden. They can bear a lot of fruit, but the plants need support – not just a stake, but rather a kind of scaffold. The branches stretch out in all directions, and can’t hold the weight of all the growing fruit. Young...
by admin | Mar 24, 2022 | PROJECTS
Mission Catalysts are people with the gifts and call to foster a variety of new faith communities. In some places they are called pioneers. As a church, we are called to embody God’s good news in word and deed in ways that offer new life to individuals and...
