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Young Adult Center: Media
The Media section is designed to provide specially selected presentations of research, practices, approaches, and models of children's faith formation. Oftentimes these will be presentations given at conferences or workshops. To select a podcast just click on the title and you will be directed to the website with the presentation.
Video Podcasts
LOST? Twenty-Somethings and the Church: The Complete Conference Videos - Fordham University
On January 28-29, 2011, over 600 people gathered at Fordham University to reflect upon the fraught and often tenuous relationship between twenty-somethings and the Catholic Church. Panels and discussants - scholars, practitioners, and twenty-somethings themselves - explored the data, the issues and the dilemmas marking this relationship, focusing on the diverse cultural, economic and religious contexts and experiences of young adults. Discussion was lively, and the energy and interest were intense. Many questions and issues were raised, but time was short, and the perspectives shared, inevitably, limited. The rich and fast-paced program closed with a palpable sense that more needed to be said and explored, more voices needed to be heard, and further work needed to be done.
Kairos Young Adult Ministry
As the need for relevant young adult ministry programs increases, the best example of a successful one in action today is Kairos, a weekly worship gathering of more than one thousand young single and married people in Nashville. In Real Time tells the story of how this ministry unfolded, and its overriding message is one that churches everywhere can take to heart and apply. Young adults are serious about life. They want basic and straight, writes Kairos pastor Mike Glenn. In the church, we have thought people were bored with the basic message, but in fact, they have never heard the gospel at all.
LOST? Twenty-Somethings and the Church: The Complete Conference Videos - Fordham University
On January 28-29, 2011, over 600 people gathered at Fordham University to reflect upon the fraught and often tenuous relationship between twenty-somethings and the Catholic Church. Panels and discussants - scholars, practitioners, and twenty-somethings themselves - explored the data, the issues and the dilemmas marking this relationship, focusing on the diverse cultural, economic and religious contexts and experiences of young adults. Discussion was lively, and the energy and interest were intense. Many questions and issues were raised, but time was short, and the perspectives shared, inevitably, limited. The rich and fast-paced program closed with a palpable sense that more needed to be said and explored, more voices needed to be heard, and further work needed to be done.
- Video Presentations: http://www.fordham.edu/cs/LostinVideos.shtml
Kairos Young Adult Ministry
As the need for relevant young adult ministry programs increases, the best example of a successful one in action today is Kairos, a weekly worship gathering of more than one thousand young single and married people in Nashville. In Real Time tells the story of how this ministry unfolded, and its overriding message is one that churches everywhere can take to heart and apply. Young adults are serious about life. They want basic and straight, writes Kairos pastor Mike Glenn. In the church, we have thought people were bored with the basic message, but in fact, they have never heard the gospel at all.
