Video Recommendations
Power Surge: Integrity (V 696)
Personal youth witnesses about understanding and development of personal integrity in modern youth culture.
Power Surge: Leadership (V860)
Offers a contemporary youth perspective on leadership.
Power Surge: Responsibility (V 861)
Fast-paced discussion by teens about taking responsibility for their own lives.
Called to be Witnesses and Storytellers (V 1316)
Training program for adults in ministry with young people that focuses on the contact model of evangelization that is developed visually through interviews with young people and adult leaders.
Book Recommendations
Soul Searching: The Religious & Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (BK 5594)
Christian Smith; Oxford University Press
This discussion reveals the complexity of contemporary teenage religious life, showing that religion is widely practiced and positively valued by teens, but also deprioritized and very poorly understood by them.
Activities for Catholic Social Teaching: A Resource Guide for Teachers and Youth Ministers (BK 5655)
James McGinnis; Ave Maria Press
Provides a collection of action-oriented activities on Catholic Social Teaching for high school teens to delve more deeply into the rich body of information related to service of the poor and justice for the whole world.
Handbook for Today’s Catholic Teen (BK 5851)
Jim Auer; Liguori
Addresses issues relevant to 21st century teens. Topics covered include Catholic doctrine, practices and prayers and the theology behind them. Plus there is a section on Catholic Christian moral issues.
Internet Recommendations
www.cpyu.org
The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by serving to bridge the cultural-generational gap between parents and teenagers.
To check out these materials or others from the Diocesan Resource Center, phone Kathy Ward at 406-442-5820 or 1-800-584-8914, or e-mail kward@diocesehelena.org
Published in The Montana Catholic, Vol. 24, No. 8, August 15, 2008. |
