Young, Woke and Christian
Words from a Missing Generation
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Young people are often referred to as the church's 'missing generation'. But perhaps it is not them that are missing from God's mission, but the church itself.'Young, Woke and Christian' brings together young church leaders and theologians who argue that the church needs to become increasingly awake to injustices in British society. It steers away from the capitalistic marketing ideas of how to attract young people into Christian fellowship and proclaims that the church's role in society is to serve society, give voice to the marginalised and stand up to damaging, dominating power structures.Covering themes such as climate change, racial inclusivity, sexual purity, homelessness, food poverty, sexuality, trans identity, feminism, peace-making, interfaith relations, and disability justice, the collection is a cry for the reform of the church to not ally with 'woke' issues because they are popular with youth, but because they are gospel issues. With a powerful prologue from Anthony Reddie.
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Table of contents
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- When Black Goes Breathless
- 1. Introduction: ‘Coming Out as Christian’
- 2. Climate Crisis: Grief, Anger and Hope as I Look to the Future
- 3. Racial Inclusion: Guidelines to being a More Racially Inclusive Church
- 4. Queer, Christian and Tired: Why I’m no Longer Talking to Cishet Christians About Sexuality
- 5. When Did I Start Calling My Body ‘It’? Purity Culture, Trauma and Learning to Embody Liberation
- 6. Comfortable Feminism is Not Enough: Following Christ’s Call for Abundant Life
- Smashed
- 7. Trans and Christian?
- 8. Waking Up to Ableism in Christian Communities
- 9. Food Poverty: Bread of Life? Or Bread for Life?
- 10. The Relevance of Mental Health for the Faith of Young People
- 11. ‘The Intentional Integration of Homeless and Formally Homeless Communities Radically Transforms the Life of Our Church’
- 12. Interfaith Engagement as Social Action: Going Beyond Sharing Samosas to Realizing a Common Humanity
- 13. Our Call to Real Peace
- Contributors