Dean, Kenda Creasy. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church.(Brief article)(Book review)

Dean, Kenda Creasy. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church. Oxford Univ. 2010. c.240p, illus. index. ISBN 9780195314847. $24.95. REL

Written as a follow-up to the 2003-05 National Study of Youth and Religion (NYSR), a research project directed by sociologist Christian Smith, and to Smith and Melina Lundquist Denton's report on it, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, this compelling work looks not only at the faith of Christian adolescents but at the challenges to the church in raising its youth. Dean (youth, church, & culture, Princeton Theological Seminary; The Godbearing Life), a United …