Global Youth Spirituality Project

Global Youth Spirituality Project

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...
Technoculture and Spirituality

Technoculture and Spirituality

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...
Baptism and Confirmation

Baptism and Confirmation

For Christians, baptism not only signifies the gift of the Spirit, it is also our initiation into ministry in the name of Christ. I’ve been interested in the relationship between Christian formation/education and the sacraments since the mid-1990s when I began...