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what are major health risks for emerging adults?

Embarking on the rollercoaster ride called adulthood? Buckle up as we spill the tea on "What Are Major Health Risks for Emerging Adults." Life beyond the comfort zone of adolescence comes with its own set of hurdles, and it's time to shine a spotlight on the health risks that tag along with this thrilling journey into grown-up land.

Diving into the Risks:

So, you're adulting now – congrats! But amidst the hustle and bustle, let's not overlook the real talk about health. Mental health is like the unsung hero of adulthood, and the "What Are Major Health Risks for Emerging Adults" question doesn't shy away from putting it front and center. Stress, anxiety, and the occasional bout of imposter syndrome—welcome to the mental health marathon! Read more cli

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Things I Learned from Young People about Faith . . . Because I Asked (Part 3)

In my last two reflections about young adults (YAs) and faith, I learned six preferences of the younger generation. Here they are:

YAs prefer dialogue over doctrine.

YAs prefer creative solutions over criticism.

YAs prefer community over church

YAs prefer inclusion over exclusion

YAs prefer people over polemics

YAs prefer reconciliation over resentment.

To be clear, these are not my preferences. This is what I learned about people younger than me because I was willing to sit for hours and listen. I’m merely a student trying to understand. And in that vein, I’m sharing what my teachers have taught me, which is why this project is more than “ethnography”. There’s a profound gift of generous insight in these six preferences.

Many of the YAs I interviewed were raised going to church. The Christian church has helped shape these preferences in the emerging adult generation. Do you see the gift? Like good teachers, the YAs are holding up a mirror to the students, should we choose to look.  

These preferences are the results of late 20th and early 21st century church youth and children’s ministries. We only have ourselves to thank.

And that begs the question: What do we observe when we look at these ministries (and ministry in general) in the mirror?

Doctrine simply means teaching. But now it can be tweeted and weaponized, reduced to sound bites and social media posts. YAs consider doctrine generally unhealthy. They crave dialogue, not more doctrine. They are not mutually exclusive in theory, but what we learn by looking in the mirror is that doctrine is code for “we have it figured out”. Ministry in the future must hold its doctrines at least loose enough for exploration, questions, and conversation. Even further, ministry ought to be the place that facilitates sincere exploration. No more staunch positions . . . at least those that are inhospitable to inquiry.

Enough with the aggression, the arguments, and defensiveness. God and the Bible (and especially the Spirit) don’t need your protection. Young adults have watched for decades the likes of Rob Bell being thrown under the bus as soon as they color outside the lines. Those seeking creative solutions to complex problems are the first to get ostracized. And there's a generation that doesn’t have an appetite for that kind of infighting. YAs long for creativity, collaboration, and new takes on complex problems we all face.

Church is not necessarily community. Sometimes it’s the most hostile (in really polite ways) place to be. YAs want community, connection, support networks, mentors, meaningful relationships, touch-points, check ins, and solidarity. But what they’ve seen is something quite different. For YAs, church is another word for the community that is integral to their religious imagination. There is no “going” to church. Church is authentic community, seeking truth and meaning and change. Which means, of course, church can be found outside of “church”. (And YAs are happy to go somewhere else to find it.)

Inclusion is moral. Inclusion is theological. Inclusion is biblical. When we look in the mirror, we often see exclusivity, shaming, and judgments. Here’s a really important point: exclusivity and shaming don’t have to look like finger-wagging and verbal assaults. Often times it’s subtle references, side points in a sermon, unintentional language in curriculum, dismissive postures toward alternative perspectives, name-calling, ignorant social media behavior, and selection of biased news sources. Accumulatively, though, what YAs have seen is a spirit of exclusivity. And they’ve had enough.  

Arguments are unnecessary. Not that they aren't important to have, but they are simply uninteresting to YAs. They grew up on a diet of seeing friends and family hurt by the church . . . and often it was packaged as an “argument for the truth”. An argument makes no room for listening. As for YAs, the barometer for healthy theology is listening to those it influences. Does it hurt? Then it can’t be right. Does it give life? Then we’re headed the right direction.  When we look in the mirror, we should probably see a long history of bad listening skills and a resistance to hearing about our shortcomings.

YAs are basically begging faith communities to lead in discovering and implementing solutions to the biggest problems in our world today. As it stands, they don’t believe the church has the chops to even engage substantively in the debates. And here’s why: Repairing the world in the ways we injured it is one of the most important ways YAs believe faith-based communities can make their way to the table of change. That requires, at the very least, confession on the part of faith communities and their leaders. While YAs crave social change, justice, and healing, the church has been afraid to even use these words, let alone facilitate the conversation about how to realize them.

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Emerging Adults for the win. "Excuse me while I'm trying to change the world."

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