{"id":1626,"date":"2022-06-01T21:13:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/riversidehub\/?page_id=1626"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:29:28","slug":"young-adult-book-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/riversidehub\/young-adult-book-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry for Hope Book Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThePublished Book<\/h3>\n

The Book is now available for preorder and our website is live!\u00a0https:\/\/hungryforhopebook.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In this remarkable volume, young adults voice their concerns and laments about the church\u2019s past and present, as well as their hopes and dreams for the church\u2019s future. Unlike many current books on youth ministry, this is not a book about how to attract young adults back to church. Instead, it is an invitation to listen to young adults as they offer important insights regarding the capacity of the church\u2014and the world\u2014to flourish going forward.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If you’d like to receive occasional updates about this project, join our mailing list: Join our Mailing List<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We have a free book club that meets monthly to discuss a chapter of the book. We would love to have you join us! Our next book club is Tuesday, January 13th at 7:00pm CST<\/strong> focused on the chapter “Gather at the Table:
\nA Call for Communities Marked by Love and Belonging” written by Amar D. Peterman & Nicholas Tangen.<\/p>\n

Register to join us on zoom!<\/a><\/p>\n

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The purpose of this book project is to amplify the voices of young adults as they articulate their hopes, dreams, concerns, and frustrations to the church. This is not a book <\/span>about<\/span><\/i> young adults. Nor is this a book about how to <\/span>attract<\/span><\/i> young adults back to church. Rather, it is a book that offers the wisdom of young adults to the church as it discerns its next most faithful steps in these emerging times.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most important insight we have gained from our five years of learning and experimenting at the intersections of church, neighborhood, and young adults is an affirmation of a hunch we had at the beginning of the project. Young adults are not interested in being a target market. They (we) would rather the church be deeply engaged in its context around issues that are threatening our neighbors’ well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have discovered many young adults are actively seeking to live out a public faith and have vision, insight, passion, and wisdom that the church needs to hear. We are endeavoring on a book project that seeks to amplify these voices through a gathering to distill key themes and then select Young Adult authors, and scholar co-authors will write chapters about each theme, culminating in a book!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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