Thank you to all who made it out to the 2017 LYTN Consultation in Indianapolis! Many fruitful conversations took place, and our keynote presentations were a particular highlight for many who attended. Below, you will find links to resources from these three presentations: Bill Cahoy Keynote Mark DeVries Powerpoint Barry Hill’s Resources Thanks again to […]
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education
This book was co-edited by Ann Bezzerides from Hellenic College (sponsor of CrossRoad Summer Institute). Published by Notre Dame Press, this offers a look at the Eastern Orthodox tradition’s impact on faith and the academy through a wide lens spanning a variety of disciplines. From the publisher’s description: “The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights […]
How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education
Kenda Creasy Dean and Christy Lang Hearlson distill the wisdom gained from Lilly Endowment’s twenty-year initiative of funding theological programs for high school youth. This wisdom includes insight into catalyzing community, vocational discernment, theological reflection, mentoring, prayer and worship, service and justice, and leadership development. This seminal text sheds light on one of the best […]
Youth Ministry, Revised Edition
This small book explores leadership for youth ministry, Christian discipleship, conversion, the theological foundations for youth ministry, the importance of community and belonging and vocational discernment. Written for congregational leaders, it highlights insights gained from sixteen years of experience directing a Lilly Endowment theological program for high school youth at Saint John’s University School of […]
From Community Service to Loving God, Loving Neighbor
By Rev. Dr. Claire Annelise Smith, Director of youTheology Institute, home of youTheology Journey with High School Students, April 15, 2016 If you’ve been around young people for any length of time, by now you know that they like to help, don’t you? Activities that involve service are high on their approval list. In addition, many […]
“The Church’s Role in Reaching Disconnected Black Youth” by Dr. Anne Streaty Wimberly
Dr. Anne Streaty Wimberly, Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA, gave a lecture last year as part of Yale Divinity School’s Youth Ministry Initiative. This lecture, titled “The Church’s Role in Reaching Disconnected Black Youth,” is below. http://livestream.com/accounts/565116/events/2106070/videos/52710651/
Youthfront Unleashes the Theological Imagination of Young People
Youthfront, a 72-year-old Kansas City youth ministry, is passionate about recovering classic Christian formation in the lives of young people. At Youthfront LaCygne, they’ve created a theological playground, a space for young people to think, reflect, doubt and pray. Teenage pilgrims gather for mid-day prayer in the meeting-room-turned-sanctuary at Youthfront LaCygne in LaCygne, Kansas. All […]
Pedagogical Recommendations for Theologians
On February 11-12, 2015, thirty-four youth theology program directors and theology faculty attended a Lilly Youth Theology Network (LYTN) consultation in Indianapolis to discuss effective pedagogical practices for engaging high school age youth in theological thinking. Listed below are pedagogical recommendations LYTN offers to theology faculty to more effectively engage high school youth in theology. […]
Why Praying the Hours Gives Us A Great Practice For Continuity
By Rev. Dr. Claire Annelise Smith, Director of youTheology Institute, home of youTheology Journey with High School Students, April 15, 2015 Have you ever done something that was important, and then one day it was as if the scales fell off and you realized that it was even more significant than you realized? It was like […]
From the Outside In
By Craig Gould, Peacebuilders Initiative, Catholic Theological Union, January 21, 2015. JB was not a Peacebuilder when the summer began. He was a teenager from Pittsburgh who some-what willingly accompanied his mother to Chicago while she taught a week long course at Catholic Theological Union. Being independent JB would explore Chicago when his mother was […]