Lives to Offer: Accompanying Youth on Their Vocational Quests

by Joyce A. Mercer, Dori Grinenko Baker

Overview

About the Author:
Dori Grinenko Baker, teaches at Union Theological Seminary/PSCE, in Richmond, Virginia

About the Author:
Joyce Ann Mercer, is associate professor of pastoral theology at Virginia Theological Seminary

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780829817263
Publisher:	Pilgrim Press, The/United Church Press
Publication date:	12/28/2007
Series:	Youth Ministry Alternatives Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Finding lives of meaning: Individual quests carried out in the company of friends     1
Walking alongside     21
Nature as teacher     48
Holy listening     71
Stories worth living     88
Like Job's daughters: Parents, vocation, and adolescent girls     106
Isaac's long walk: Keeping faith with guys on the path to wholeness     130
Whose calling? Who's calling?: The Spirit of God and the calling of youth     154
Epilogue: A conversation on youth and vocation with James W. Fowler     176
Bibliography     183
Index     189