MySpace to Sacred Space: God for a New Generation Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
I Love to Tell the Story     11
Low Expectations
Retreat
Loss of Absolutes
A Sense of Mystery
Amy's Story
An Overarching Purpose
The God Image     33
A Generation Adrift
Weak Ties, High Mobility
Relationship over Religion
What We Found
America's Four Gods
Now What?
The Coffeehouse Myth     53
The Starbucks Session
Jesus and Java
Habit, Tradition, and Ritual     67
Habit
Tradition
Ritual
A Crisis of Imagination
Story, Experience, and Ritual
Rites of Passage
Sex and Money
Addiction     91
College, Catharsis, Crisis (As Told by Christian)
The Human Condition
Doing What We Hate
Steps to Recovery
An Addiction Epidemic
Our Family Intervention (As Told by Amy)
Jake's Story
Numbers Don't Lie
God of Rock     109
Fair to Compare?
Christian's Story
A Window to the Divine
Who May Serve?     129
Seminary Trends
The Great Divide
Drawing Lines, Crossing Lines
Eric's Story
Staying at the Table
Church of the Prodigal Child     141
Who Are They?
Brenda and Sam's Story
Jake on the Church
Spiritual but Not Religious
Conclusion     159
Notes     163