Category: Young Adults
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New ‘Coworkers in the Vineyard’: the Next Generation of Lay Ministers
Those lay men and women educated and formed in the 1970s and 80s are now reaching retirement age (as are many of their ordained counterparts). Enter a new generation of lay ministers eager to serve.
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“And my confirmation name is…”
During a recent confirmation service I attended, I was struck — once again — by the fact that every candidate announced a “confirmation name” they had chosen. For one, I am always intrigued by the names that come to be chosen. I think it reveals something about a spiritual journey if you name yourself after,…
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Student liturgies at a Seminary
They just came. How refreshing.
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Only 15% of US Millennials Call Themselves Christian (?)
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. As if there isn’t enough of that about secularism.
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The Bible, runaway bestseller in Norway
Despite the unorthodox artistic interpretations that are emerging, religious authorities in Norway are embracing the concept of experiencing religion through art.
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Generation LGBTQIA — In Church and at Worship?
An interesting article in Thursday’s New York Times about the new generation of gender activists, who define themselves beyond the older LGBT categories and name themselves as queer or gender-nonconforming, etc.
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Eucharistic Adoration consultation at Saint John’s University
These women have been through periods of spiritual dryness, suffered with problems of self-image, experienced great joy, and read many books. Their spiritualities are diverse, but all generous and realistic, even practical. They go to adoration to enhance their discernment of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and to develop their intimate and personal…
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What do young people really want?
“You’ve got a generation now that is looking for more commitment and greater certitude, and strangely enough, more discipline and clearer teachings. Modernity now for young people is old-fashioned.” Fr. Kramer, pastor of the Extraordinary Form parish in Rome
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And Now For Something Completely Different (or: Of Studies, Liturgical Part VII)
Emergent — emerging — emergence worship fascinates me, though I’m never quite sure how much it represents an act of retrieval, how much a creative appropriation and inculturation of liturgy, and how much the idiosyncratic whims of communities. . . .