Young adults
Young adults
Over the last several decades, vocation and initial formation ministers have experienced rather profound shifts in underlying philosophies and strategies for ministry. Pre-Vatican II programs generally operated from a somewhat rigid, traditional discernment/ training approach for all participants. Read more...
When Hurricane Mitch devastated Nicaragua, the lack of accurate maps was one of the major obstacles relief agencies faced in a land where rivers had changed banks, roads were non-existent, and entire towns had been swept away. A smaller hurricane traveled up the east coast of the United States, and the force of the ocean surge leveled some sand bars and created new ones off the point of Long Island. Read more...
Much has been written in recent years about Generation X or young adult Catholics. From Tom Beaudoin’s impressionistic Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X to Dean Hoge, William Dinges, Mary Johnson, and Juan Gonzales’s recently published sociological study, Young Adult Catholics: Religion in the Culture of Choice, researchers have sought to describe and understand Catholics raised in the post-Baby Boom, post-Vatican II era. Read more...
A NUMBER OF RECENT BOOKS examine the role of faith, church, religion and spirituality in the 20-and 30-something Americans that vocation ministers largely engage as future religious. David Kinnaman’s UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity and Why It Matters (Baker Books, 2007) and Robert Wuthnow’s After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (Princeton, 2007) both provide dense, though helpful, sociological assessments of this demographic. Read more...
Souls in Transition: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults documents that emerging adults are the least religious adults in the United States today, struggle with concentration, and generally indicate that religious tradition matters little to most of them. At more than 300 pages, Souls in Transition is a tour de force. Read more...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a Catholic, young (“emerging”) adult in the 21st century? This is a fundamental question we vocation ministers ask ourselves as we accompany young women and men on their journey toward understanding, both intellectually and affectively, how God may be inviting them into a deeper relationship with God’s self, and thus into a life of service for and with Jesus Christ. After all, isn’t that what vocation discernment is all about? Read more...
To prepare for the October 2018 synod of bishops on youth, faith, and vocational discernment, church officials invited 300 young adults from around the world to meet in Rome in March 2018 to provide feedback on the synod themes. HORIZON presents just one section of this compelling document, which was written following extensive consultation via social media. Read more...
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