The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture foster original scholarship pertaining to youth and the contemporary church. The lectures are sponsored by the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and delivered in conjunction with the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry.
Currently the lectures from 1996–2023 are available here. For more recent lectures, contact the Institute for Youth Ministry.
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- 1996 — Christ and the Adolescent: A Theological Approach to Youth Ministry
- 1997 — At-Risk Youth, At-Risk Church: What Jesus Christ and American Teenagers are Saying to the Mainline Church
- 1998 — Growing Up Postmodern: Imitating Christ in the Age of “Whatever”
- 1999 — An Unexpected Prophet: What the 21st-Century Church Can Learn from Youth Ministry
- 2000 — Life Together: Practicing Faith with Adolescents
- 2001 — Proclaiming the Gospel in a Wired World
- 2002 — Compass Points: Navigating Vocation
- 2003 — Building Bridges
- 2004 — Longing for God: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church
- 2005 — With Energy, Intelligence, Imagination and Love: Leadership in Youth Ministry
- 2006 — “For Such a Time as This” (Esther 4:14)
- 2007 — Community
- 2008 — “And You Will Be My Witnesses…”
- 2009 — Sharing Not Only the Gospel, But Also Our Lives
- 2010 — Hope
- 2011 — Faith
- 2012 — Create
- 2013 — Follow Me
- 2014 — Testimony
- 2015 — Role of the Holy Spirit in Youth Ministry
- 2016 — All Things New
- 2017 — Declare!
- 2018 — Image: Youth Ministry in a Visual Age (No audio recordings or lecture texts available for this year.)
- 2019 — Movement: Mission, Body, and Justice
- 2020 — Revisioning Youth Ministry: Failure, Grief, and Hope (No audio recordings or lecture texts available for this year.)
- 2021 — Young People in Crisis: Mental Health and Youth Ministry (No audio recordings or lecture texts available for this year.)
- 2022 — Construct: Building Ministry with Young People
- 2023 — A Time to Heal: Trauma and Grace in Youth Ministry