The thick relational ecosystem - why we need youth ministry more than ever
Seth Kaplan's article on the After Babel Substack reads like a secular argument for why youth ministry matters.
Joel and Tim trace the arc from 1950s street culture to the latchkey generation to the screen-based void that smartphones were custom-built to fill, and ask what the church uniquely offers in response. The answer, according to both secular sociology and Christian theology, is the same thing: thick, embedded, multi-generational communities where kids are known, challenged, given genuine responsibility and can't just opt out when conflict arises.
Tim also pushes back on one of…
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