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aesthetics as validating—frequently looking to youth as a source of energy, beauty, joy, spontaneity, creativity, camaraderie, and authenticity. Freud furthered the Romantic agenda with his view that social expectations were manifestations of pesky ego and superego structures, which inhibited authentic

here is focused on trash talk… According to the rumours, I’ve been pregnant like a hundred times, even though I did not know about it. I have escaped from a mental hospital or jail. I just laughed about it. I don’t waste my energy on stressing about it. Niina explains that first she was bullied

response to the lack of investment North American churches made in ‘spiritually interested teenagers’ (p. 8). Why? According to Dean and Hearlson, these youth had already been ‘won’ and churches preferred putting time and energy into reaching a wide range of young people to engage the ‘spiritual appetites

ministry, the Youth Pastor was justified in directing his energy toward empowering those young people who had passion and vision for ministry. And eventually, it became evident to Jesse that there was no real reason for him to continue to go to youth group. Youth ministry was, by design, for me but not for

– adolescents are characterised as creative, interrelated and romantic, a “vernal season of the heart”; but also, significantly, in need of enforced boundaries (educational, judicial, labour, leisure, etc.) to protect their vital energies from dissipation. Moreover, this theory spawned numerous ‘child

constrain an experience of God’s love during camp as well, at least as embodied knowledge . Further, if confirmands spend all their energy trying to be invisible or trying to protect themselves, they might not be very open to teaching sessions or evening prayer, or may even skip the sessions all together

congregation, nor the denial of her father or the congregation, have the last word; she felt compelled to resist silence or denial. These young people, with their determined decisions to hope, point religious scholars and leaders to revisit theologies of hope, which are imbued with new energy and insight by

significance of Christian revelation. While seemingly benign, uncritical use of social science arguably risks smuggling into youth ministry anthropologies and ontologies at odds with the world disclosed in scripture. 4 Far too often the demands of sheer time and energy involved in social science research

period and the controversies that led to the ecclesial creativity is often overlooked. 41 Similarly, the revitalizing of Welsh church life by the emergence of Methodism through the first half of the eighteenth century was the result in no small part of the energy of youthful men in hymn-writer William