S9 Ep999: #999 - Is GenZ Bored with Church? Dr. Kara Powell
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
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Summary
Dr. Kara E. Powell is Chief of Leadership Formation, Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, and Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary. She has a B.A. from Stanford, an MDiv from Bethel Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch,” Kara is the author or coauthor of Faith in an Anxious World (2020), Growing with (2019), 18 Plus (2018), Growing Young (2016), 10 StickyFaith books or curriculum (2011–2016), Right Click (2015), Can I Ask That? 2: More Hard Questions about God and Faith (2015), Essential Leadership: Training Onramps for Your Youth Ministry Team (2010), Deep Justice Journeys (2009), Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum(2009), Deep Justice in a Broken World (2008), Deep Ministry in a Shallow World(2006), Help! I’m a Woman in Youth Ministry (2004), and Mirror, Mirror (2003).
In this conversation, Kare and I talk about the GenZ, youth culture, youth ministry, and why GenZ Christians are getting bored with church and how we can keep them connected not just to some institutional church, but connected to a vibrant Jesus-following community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology, and around my guest today is the one |
| 0:03.5 | or only Dr. Cara Powell. Cara leads the Fuller Youth Institute. She has a PhD from Fuller's |
| 0:09.3 | Seminary, a undergrad degree in child and youth development at Stanford University. She has written |
| 0:14.5 | or co-written several books. The most recent book is three big questions that change every |
| 0:20.5 | teenager. She's also the author of Growing with, Growing Young, Sticky Faith Guide for your family |
| 0:25.6 | and many other incredibly helpful resources. Cara is kind of the one of, if not the leading |
| 0:32.5 | Christian leaders when it comes to understanding younger people in particular Gen Z. So please welcome |
| 0:38.5 | to the show for the first time. Do you wonder only Dr. Cara Powell. |
| 0:56.5 | What's your moniker that people describe you as? Are you like the just like youth culture expert |
| 1:02.0 | or I know you probably don't use that term for yourself? Well, I'd probably just go with Cara, |
| 1:05.8 | actually. So I can just go with that precedent. That would be my first choice. |
| 1:10.4 | Struggling Christian. Trying to keep it together. Well, I wouldn't have you on. I mean, |
| 1:15.4 | for various reasons. For one, I've got four Gen Z kids. We talked offline, 1917, 15, 13, |
| 1:23.3 | and I do work with youth to some extent. Yeah, I just have a huge, huge heart for the next |
| 1:29.9 | generation. And I understand kind of older people. Sometimes they're real frustrated at Gen Z, |
| 1:35.8 | you know, oh, they're so entitled. And they want to be famous by 21 and all of the YouTube. |
| 1:40.8 | Like, what are they doing? You know, but I love how you, I think you acknowledge a challenge |
| 1:45.2 | is obviously, but you have a very positive like, man, let's harness the energy and passion from |
| 1:50.1 | this next generation. So let me, let me lead with this question. How would you describe Gen Z, |
| 1:56.2 | maybe against the backdrop of millennials, like some similarities, maybe some differences. Like |
| 2:02.1 | as someone said, what is Gen Z? Like, what is that as a group of people? What's your kind of two |
| 2:08.0 | minute overview of that group of people? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And fantastic question, Preston. |
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