Elizabeth W. Corrie

Youth Ministry as Peace Education (eBook, ePUB)

Overcoming Silence, Transforming Violence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Young people can be peacebuilders--citizens who address the root causes of hatred and abuse of power to build more just and peaceful communities. Indeed, young people are already leading movements to change policy and culture--most prominently, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Climate Strikers, and the originators of the Standing Rock protests and Black Lives Matter movement. Yet churches are notably absent among those who support and mentor such leaders.

Drawing on the deep wisdom of Christian tradition and practice and the latest insights in educating for peace and civic engagement, Youth Ministry as Peace Education offers clergy, students, and practitioners a new approach to youth ministry--a way to equip young people to transform violence and oppression as part of their Christian vocation.

In this theologically robust and pedagogically innovative and tested resource, Elizabeth W. Corrie takes seriously the capacity of young people and shows how to integrate new tools and insights into the typical facets of congregational youth ministry: building community, learning theology, reading scripture, going on mission and service trips, engaging in worship and prayer. The final chapter suggests an additional facet of congregational youth ministry needed for young people to overcome silence and transform violence: preparing and planning for engaging the world nonviolently.

Youth are not the future; they are the present. Youth are not meant to accept injustice and violence passively. Like all of us, they are meant to work actively to establish God's shalom--peace, justice, and well-being--on earth as it is in heaven.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781506469478
• Artikelnr.: 61663963

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth W. Corrie is on the faculty of Candler School of Theology, Emory University; directed Candler's Youth Theological Initiative from 2007 to 2019; and is currently director of Candler's Religious Education Program. Her teaching draws on commitments to both peace with justice and the education of young people, particularly teaching and ministry that empower people for global citizenship. She is an active lay leader in the United Methodist Church and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.