Are you ready to change the way you have been thinking about teenagers? Are you prepared to rethink all the things you thought you knew about the modern invention of the life stage we call adolescence?
Author, speaker and youth ministry veteran Crystal Kirgiss is ready. In her new book In Search of Adolescence: A New Look at an Old Idea, she turns the current views in youth ministry upside down and gives them a hard historical shake. The result is a few more than 100 pages full of information and proof that adolescence as we know it has been around a very long time.
Kirgiss, through a quick but astute study of literature, art and sermons of the past, gives proof that people have been thinking, creating and preaching about the teenage years all along. While traditional wisdom in youth ministry has been claiming that adolescence and the teenage years only recently were invented and recognized, this book blows open the door to a completely different truth.
Funny, insightful and well written, this book is outstanding on multiple levels and is well worth a read if you are someone who works with teens or has a teen of your own. This book will open your eyes to the very old idea that surprisingly describes modern adolescence right down to attitudes, skinny pants and Toms.
