Episode 130: "Keeping and Handing Down The Faith" with Christian Smith
Youth Culture Matters - A CPYU Podcast
English - May 20, 2021 18:12 - 1 hour - 55 MB - ★★★★ - 68 ratingsSociety & Culture Kids & Family youth culture youth ministry children's ministry college ministry walt mueller cpyu teenagers families family ministry Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
I recently went back and read through the first book I wrote way back in 1988, Ministry To Families With Teenagers. I had written these words: “Moral and faith development are influenced first and foremost by the family. Inevitably, those clumsy 12-year-olds in the middle school youth group blossom into mature adults who are strikingly like their parents.” I believed that then, and I believe it even more now. In recent years, sociologist Dr. Christian Smith has served to provide youth workers and parents with practical research-based suggestions that affirm this reality and which, when heeded, foster greater effectiveness in our parenting and youth ministries. And that’s what Christian Smith will be sharing as we talk to him about his new book, Handing Down The Faith, on this episode of Youth Culture Matters.