“In a world characterized by 7.5 million adolescents on psychotropic medication, 7th-grade ACT test prep, an average of 30 minutes of homework per night for kindergartners, private soccer coaches overseeing the wind sprints of 4-year-olds, and teenagers who believe suicide might remedy that one neglected paper that has already “ruined their lives,” it’s time to ask what role “youth ministry” plays in the life of a religious organization with diminishing resources for, and diminishing influence among, young people desperately in need of support.”
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