I just finished an easy reading by the fire kind of book. Ms. Carroll looks into the unstable social changes that the gen-Xers have endured and their desire for something solid, concrete, time tested & enduring; in a word tradition. And it’s not just young Catholic’s, but many Protestant & Orthodox churches as well. With all the negative that one can read about young folks and with all the dearth religious education for them, it’s inspiring to read their stories.
I felt very hopeful about our future with outstanding examples contra the media image of todays youth. Their looking for a true challenge and they’ll meet it, the boomers in religious ed simply have to be willing to trust them to give it to them. Published in 04, her statistical data isn’t to old(2000) so I believe her observations are still current.
I picked up this book some time ago, but never got around to reading it. Thanks for the nudge to pick it up again.
Hello – thanks for stopping by my blog! I’m over here checking things out and I like it!! I’m so excited to meet another female Catholic Blogger (since I’m quite new at this!) I will certainly be back – but now I’m off to take the “which church father are you” quiz!
I’m male not female. MS. Carroll wrote the book, sorry if I wasn’t clear on that one.