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Kenda Dean is an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference
(United Methodist) and Associate Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton
Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry. A
graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, she served as a pastor in suburban Washington, DC
and as Wesley Foundation Director at the University of Maryland-College Park before coming
to Princeton Seminary. Her most recent books include
Occasional God: What the Soul-Searching
of American Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Oxford, forthcoming) and
Generation
OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook, ed. (Abingdon, forthcoming). An Ohio native who has
accidentally landed in New Jersey, she loves the beach but still can’t make herself say
"downtheshore."
(Bio dated 2010)
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Ascension Deficit Disorder: Youth Ministry as Laboratory for Hope
Holding On to Our Kisses:The Hormonal Theology of Adolescence
The Problem with Passion: Or, Why the Church of Mel Gibson Is Doing Just Fine
The Sacrament of One Another: Practicing Fidelity through Holy Friendship
Somebody Save Me: Passion, Salvation, and the Smallville Effect
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