From One Generation to Another

Last spring, I was fortunate enough to teach a lecture series on the Millennial generation which highlighted current research on early, middle and late adolescents, technology, the effects of globalization, education, and religion in North America.

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting short abstracts that distill those lectures here at Youthful Praxis.  As for taste of what is to come, here is an abridged list of resources I sited in preparation for the lectures:

• Chap Clark and Dee Clark, Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World (Grand Rapids: BakerBooks, 2007).
• David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity… and Why it Matters (Grand Rapids: BakerBooks, 2007).
• Robert Wuthnow, After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
• Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005).
• Mark Noll and James Turner, The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic  Dialogue (Grand Rapids: BrazosPress, 2008).
• George Barna, Revolution (Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2005).