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Kenda Creasy Dean

Kenda Creasy Dean is an elder in the United Methodist Church and a professor of youth, church and culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also works with the Institute for Youth Ministry. Her books include Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Oxford University Press).

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Growing youth

The most hopeful message in Green­houses of Hope is implicit: your church doesn't have to be large, suburban, white or wealthy--or even to have an established youth program--in order for ministry with young people to flourish.
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Faith, nice and easy: The almost-Christian formation of teens

In 1984, Marvel Comics created a new nemesis for Spider-Man. The character would be a symbiote, inspired by what parasitologists call the weaker of two organisms inhabiting the same space....
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After youth group

My friend David Burke, veteran youth pastor and church consultant, met recently with leaders of a midsiz...

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