Table of Contents
Foreword Craig Dykstra x
Acknowledgments xix
Part 1 A More Excellent Way: Vocational Discernment as a Practice of Christian Community
1 Taste Tests and Teenagers: Vocational Discernment as a Creative Social Practice Kenda Creasy Dean Christy Lang Hearlson 3
2 Calling as Creative Process: Wicked Questions for Theological Education Kenda Creasy Dean Christy Lang Hearlson 31
Part 2 More Than a Job Fair: Creating Cultures of Vocational Discernment
3 Catalyzing Community: Forming the Community as Catechist Anabel Proffitt Jacquie Church Young 63
4 Give Me Mentors: Pedagogies of Spiritual Accompaniment Anne Streaty Wimberly 79
5 Holy Noticing: The Power of Nomination and Commissioning for Missional Formation Katherine M. Douglass 100
6 Taking It Home: Separation and Reintegration as Teachable Moments Christy Lang Hearlson 121
Part 3 More Than Summer Camp: Adventures in Vocational Pedagogies
7 Getting All Turned Around: Truth, Disruption, and Reorientation in High School Theology Programs Andrew Brubacher Kaethler 139
8 Fuel My Faith: Pedagogies of Theological Reflection in High School Theology Programs Jeffrey Kaster 154
9 The Formative Power of Awe: Pedagogies of Worship and Wonder Fred Edie 174
10 Prepare Me for a Worthy Adventure: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage in Adolescent Formation David Horn 193
11 Let Me Try: Experiential Learning in the Theological Formation of Young People Judy Steers 211
Part 4 More Than Teenagers: Vocational Discernment in the Lives of Program Staff, Faculty, and Theological Institutions
12 Becoming Christ's Hands and Feet in the World: The Vocational Formation of Staff Elizabeth W. Corrie 231
13 Teaching in a New Key: The Pedagogical Formation of Theological Faculty Brent A. Strawn 247
14 Hitting It Out of the Park: Why Churches Need Farm Teams Kenda Creasy Dean 265
Appendixes
A Research Methods for the High School Youth Theology Program Seminar Katherine M. Douglass Kenda Creasy Dean 288
B Members of the High School Theology Program Seminar (2011-2013) 294
C Theological Programs for High School Youth, Lilly Endowment, Inc. (active in 2014) 299
Index 301