Growing Up Lonely Gen Z
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Gen Z Misunderstood
Author: Tanner Callison
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2022-07-15
Don't count out Gen Z. These misfits and dreamers desire to see change in the world. Born between 1995 and 2012, they are the largest generation in the United States, but most Christians misunderstand the gap between them and Gen Z. Gen Z Misunderstood seeks to bridge the gap between you and Gen Z! Through years of experience with Gen Z, Tanner Callison seeks to challenge you to think differently and reprioritize your ministry efforts among this promising generation. We need to understand the story of Gen Z so we may invite them to a better story—God's story.
iGen
“We’ve all been desperate to learn what heavy use of social media does to adolescents. Now, thanks to Twenge’s careful analysis, we know: It is making them lonely, anxious, and fragile—especially our girls. If you are a parent, teacher, or employer, you must read this fascinating book.”—Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation Born after 1995, they grew up with cell phones, had an Instagram page before high school, and cannot remember a time before the Internet. They are iGen. Now, here is crucial reading to understand how these children, teens, and young adults are vastly different from their millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world. *As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR*
To Believe or Not Believe
Based on years of teaching, this book examines the faith of young adults in a broad context, not just of secular society or because of nonobservant parents, but a society which fails to grasp the nature of truth or the transcendent, a failure to grasp Catholicism’s deep conviction of the compatibility of faith and reason and how we encounter the mystery of the divine, and contemporary America’s truncated vision of salvation. While these young adults are not hostile and willing to listen, a religious background is often missing. This book addresses young people and those who work with them—teachers, pastors, or parents. In our post-truth society, many are formed by social media rather than an education in the humanities. Disinformation is also a major problem, poisoning our politics as is the secularity of a culture that has little concern for the religious traditions that once shaped it. This is the world our young adults inhabit. The concluding reflections offer some practical suggestions.