Morality and Youth: Fostering Christian IdentityAnyone concerned with the religious and moral development of adolescents- parents, teachers, youth ministers- will find in Morality and Youth both a realistic assessment of the present situation and solid grounds for hope in the future. |
Contents
The New Illiteracy | 1 |
Teaching the Next New Breed | 11 |
Will My Child Keep the Faith? | 26 |
The Religious Needs of Teens | 36 |
Evangelizing the Young | 45 |
Telling the Jesus Story | 53 |
How They Grow and Learn | 61 |
Teaching Right and Wrong I | 72 |
Teaching Right and Wrong II | 81 |
Public Schools and Moral Development | 90 |
Everything You Didnt Want to Know About Sex | 106 |
The Educator as Minister | 118 |
Ministering to the Young | 124 |
Afterword | 152 |
Acknowledgments | 156 |
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