Charles Taylor

• The porous self vs. the buffered self

What Boys Need for Their Future

"Awareness of spiritual development creates opportunities to prepare teens for the important inner work required for individuation, identity development, emotional resilience, character, meaningful work, and healthy relationships. Spirituality is the central organizing principle of inner life in the second decade, boosting teens into an adulthood of meaning and purpose, thriving, and awareness." (p. 3).

Lisa Miller, The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving

“Reverence for things sacred”: Woodberry Forest’s Christian programs• Weekly chapel (the only required program; Sunday night after advisee

dinner, c. 40 minutes)

• Weekly communion (Wednesday nights after dinner)

• Woodberry Christian Fellowship (most Tuesdays over pizza dinner)

• Form-based Bible studies (c. 30 minutes/week, at various times)

• One-trimester Biblical Survey requirement

• Special services (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, etc.)

• Community service requirement of 60 hours for four-year students

• Special events: Special Olympics, Habitat house-building, FOCUS on Martha’s Vineyard

“big tent Protestantism”

• Mainliners and evangelicals working together

Use of outside groups and venues

• Habitat for Humanity

• FOCUS

• Missions trips

Use of outside groups and venues

• Habitat for Humanity

• FOCUS

• Missions trips

Preserving Christian identity

• Don’t quarantine the faith

• Maintain chapel as chapel

• Being Christian in an age of pluralism