Arm in Arm with Adolescent Girls: Educating Into the New Creation (Horizons in Religious Education)

Adolescent girls are filled with passion excitement joy critique wit and energy even as they face and overcome a wide variety of difficult challenges. Some challenges are spirit- and even life-threatening. The stories of more than twenty adolescent girls are put into dialogue with the Apostle Paul especially in Rom 6-8. Through that perhaps unlikely pairing those who love and work with adolescent girls will find a depth of understanding and a call to action. Christian educators pastors youth workers parents and adolescent girls will find a new way to look at the world around them and a new way to bring Scripture to bear on real-life experience. By offering this powerful scripturally grounded approach to the world around us adolescent girls will learn compelling methods to put this perspective into action in their personal lives social circles and churches. This thoughtful respectful look at the lives adolescent girls are living seeks to equip others to fulfill their prophetic voices by calling out the sins of racism sexism homophobia and sizeism in the experiences of these strong and resilient girls.