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 | 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 20, 2022 | RESEARCH
In 2011-2012 the Uniting Church conducted a national review of the ministry of lay preacher, surveying lay worship leaders and preachers, ministers, church councils and presbyteries. The research was undertaken on behalf of the Working Group on Lay Specified...
