Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.1163/24055093-BJA10019
Sarah E. Holmes, Astrid Sandsmark, Ronelle Sonnenberg, Shantelle Weber
The role and function of children’s ministry during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic is explored, including a comparison of observations from four different contexts: Norway, South Africa, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom. Theological reflection examines the emerging ecclesiologies, form and adaptation of sacramental practices and pastoral care of families during this time of crisis. This investigation acknowledges awareness that there were significant restrictions and consequent challenges facing churches during this time, causing implications on children’s ministry that were unprecedented and frustrating for the Church on a global scale. Observations and recommendations are presented to aid churches globally in ensuring that children’s ministry during such times of crisis is child-centred, values the child as part of the body of Christ, fosters intergenerational role modelling and solidarity, and helps rather than hinders children on their spiritual journey.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01902006
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Pub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01902005
David F. White
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Pub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10007
Chris D. Clements
As churches continue to feel anxious about losing their young people, the impulse to find means to secure young people’s faith identities can arise. Such approaches, though well-intended, can inadvertently become exercises in identity foreclosure. Foreclosure subverts young people’s selfhood and can lead to faith and identity commitments that lack resilience. Using Søren Kierkegaard’s writings and the biblical book of Jonah, an approach to faith formation will be articulated that focuses on hearing God’s call. This approach avoids identity-foreclosing impulses by elevating the place of God’s calling in faith formation.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10010
Allan Clyne
This article celebrates the 50th anniversary of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It responds to the current youth work environment within the UK by examining the differing attitudes and treatment of Freire and his pedagogy within this melded arena. It reveals youth ministry’s and Christian faith-based youth work’s limited engagement with Freire and explains the secularisation of his ideas within the wider youth work field, how they were isolated from his faith, subjugated to the work of Carl Rogers and latterly rebranded as secular Marxist. In contrast, this piece suggests that Paulo Freire’s work should be recognised as a pedagogy drawn from his Christian faith. It concludes by relating his work to Liberation Theology and introduces an interpretation of conscientização as a Christian pedagogy. While Anglo-centric it aims to motivate a discussion amongst Christian faith-based youth workers around the globe, particularly those who contend with the secularisation of Freire’s work.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10009
Patrik C. Höring
The involvement (participation) of young people is the central characteristic of youth work in Germany. Where does this approach come from? And what role does it play in practice today? The following article gives a short introduction into youth work in Germany and traces how the idea of participation has developed in Catholic youth associations and what demands and challenges it poses in practice today.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-07DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10008
S. Nash, P. Nash, N. Roberts
Sometimes churches and Christian groups encounter scepticism or even hostility when they seek to engage with children, young people or young adults (cypya) within their community and have sought models and approaches that would be both accepted and understood. Chaplaincy is one way that some have sought to reframe mission and ministry. Chaplaincy is a distinctive ministry with a long history across many sectors but with no common core understanding. The Centre for Chaplaincy with Children and Young People embarked on a project to develop occupational standards for chaplaincy with cypya through convening a group consisting of chaplaincy leaders from denominations and organizations. The reason for developing occupational standards is to address issues of definition, credibility, measurement, accountability, training, development and audit framework. This article describes the process, underpinning values and theology and presents the twelve standards.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-09DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01901003
Mark Scanlan
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Pub Date : 2020-05-09DOI: 10.1163/24055093-01901001
D. Bosma
For young New Zealanders who choose to convert to Christianity from secular backgrounds, their conversion is a deeply emotional experience. One factor that has a significant bearing on the emotional state of a young convert is the way in which their parents react to the news. Another is the presence of “crisis” as a common feature within the conversion process. Spiritual experiences can also result in a variety of emotional responses, not all of them positive. For Māori young people who convert to Christianity in New Zealand, there exist pressures from within their own culture, as well as a felt sense of distance and difference from a majority-European Christian church. I interviewed 32 young New Zealanders who converted to Christianity from secular backgrounds, and this paper will seek to chronicle some of the common emotional challenges that they experienced as a part of their conversion journeys. I will then conclude by interacting with Andrew Root’s concept of place sharing in ministry as a suggested way of ministering to young people who are experiencing the struggle of conversion.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-09DOI: 10.1163/24055093-bja10004
Don Smith
This grounded theory research paper presents an analysis of the motivation of young men in commencing a three-stage leadership development program and the critical influences impacting their decision to return for subsequent stages of the program. The key findings are that both people and program influences are significant. The key program influences initially are the community and group in Stage 1 along with certain program-specific elements. This creates a momentum towards Stage 2 where a three-day wilderness Solo experience emerges as the core category / central phenomenon – drawing participants from Stage 1 and being motivational towards Stage 3. Specific program elements and “lenses” are identified for future research.
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