Emerging Adulthood

This week I read a great article on Emerging Adulthood, Getting a Life - The challenge of emerging adulthood by Christian Smith from my Christianity Today Books & Culture email. Christian Smith is the author of Soul Searching, which is a must read for every student ministry pastor.

He asks two important questions student ministry pastors and the rest of the pastors in their church should answer based on his conclusions, "How does or should American Christianity speak to emerging adults as people and emerging adulthood as a cultural fact? How can the church faithfully speak the gospel to 18- to 30-year-olds?"

I passed this on to our pastoral staff and we are going to address these two questions at a staff meeting in January.