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Adolescence and the Creation of the Secular Age of Unbelief

This article is the first in a two part series focusing on the relationship between adolescence, as a cultural category, and secularity in the West. In this article Andrew Root provides a theological and cultural analysis. The second article, written by Kevin Alton asks the "So what?" question: What does this mean for youth ministry? Like an erratic rash that seems to clear up to only return, an old debate has resurfaced once again in discussions of Protestant youth ministry.  This…
Andrew Root
January 9, 2017
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Did the TV Kill Meaning? Screens, Disneyland, and Goat Poop

I had a realization last winter that nearly all of my waking hours were spent in one of two places. Not two buildings, like home and work, but literally two places, two three-foot-by-five-foot areas. Almost all of my other movements were either en route to these two places or excursions that frustrated me from being at one or the other of these places. In the middle of a cold Minnesota winter I realized that most of my time was spent…
Andrew Root
October 1, 2010