Kenda Creasy Dean on teenage faith formation

Kenda Creasy Dean has a new article in The Christian Century titled Faith, nice and easy:
The almost-Christian formation of teens. "Young people will not develop consequential faith simply by being absorbed into a so-called Christian culture as an alternative to the culture at large; churches are quite capable of developing deformative cultures of their own, while washing down the gospel with large gulps of rationalization. Consequential faith is the result of doing ministry, and not simply being ministered to." The article is a distillation of her new book Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church which Tony Jones is blogging his way through.

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