The Hormonal Theology of Adolescence

Holding On To Our Kisses: The Hormonal Theology of Adolescence by Kenda Creasy Dean is a must read for any student ministry pastor, leader of parent of an adolescent. I read through this paper this week as I am preparing to speak in week 4 of our 5 week series, Urge 2 Merge.

She argues in this paper that we must recapture a theology of sex in the context of spirituality. Adolescents are longing for both and it's during these formative years that the church must recapture the adolescents desire to be with "another" and link it to spirituality. Succinctly stated, God created us for intercourse (communion) with each other and Him. As she summarizes, "God created sexuality and spirituality as twin paths to Otherness, divinely appointed routes to the God who desires intercourse, or communion, with us."