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Assistant Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry in the Alford Chair of Christian Education and Youth Ministry
740-362-3437
tvanmeter@mtso.edu
Gault 246
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"Young people aren't
looking for a faith that seeks to fix, attract, or entertain
them, but for communities of faith that will take them seriously
and walk with them in our shared questions and commitments.
Young people offer an invitation for churches to discern how
they live out their call as communities of faithful change,
writing the stories of possible futures with sacred texts,
rituals, traditions, and narratives that ground our life
together as church across generations throughout history."
Education:
Ph.D., Emory University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
Graduate Division of Religion, 2003
M.Div., Emory University, Candler School of Theology, 1996
B.S., Tennessee Technological University, 1985
Areas of Expertise:
Teaching and research related to the spiritual and vocational
aspirations of youth and young adults including youth cultures,
popular culture, spiritual practices, ecology, justice and peace
movements, communal movements, alternative forms of church and
educational theory.
Recent Publications:
“No Longer Guests” written with Katherine Turpin
Created in Delight: Youth Ministry and the
Mending of the World (book in process)
Travel with Youth in an Age of Empire (presentation at
Cambridge conference, International Association of Youth
Ministry, January 2007) |
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