Spiritual Disciplines Mobile app for Young People
The Uniting Church in Queensland, Australia, has a project to develop an ‘app’ for mobile devices to help young people practice spiritual disciplines. It’s called “GrowFaith”, and they’re currently conducting online research to help them assess what young people, youth leaders and parents might want from such a thing. You can learn about it and… [Continue Reading]
Christian Youth Spirituality Website
The Upper Room’s spiritual growth resource for young people, Devo’Zine, has a new website here with a range of things that will interest young people, youth leaders and teachers. The Upper Room is an activity of the United Methodist Church in the USA. Clearly it’s designed to be interactive in terms of young people exploring… [Continue Reading]
Young People, Technoculture and Embodied Spirituality
Young people seek intimacy and transcendence through technology. This is an authentically spiritual quest. After a very long wait, the Australasian Theological Forum (ATF) has finally published Interface, Vol 14, No. 2. Titled “Theology and the Body” and edited by Stephen Garner, Lecturer in the Theology at the University of Auckland. You can buy the… [Continue Reading]
Researching spirituality in schools
An Anglican School in northern New South Wales has conducted research regarding the beliefs and attitudes of its students towards religion and spirituality. Fr Glenn Loughrey, Chaplain at Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, designed and conducted the survey with 569 students from years 5-12 (the school is a co-educational K-12 school). Students were asked a range… [Continue Reading]