Title: Googling God
First published: September 3, 2007
Description: Significant numbers of young adult Catholics today remain loosely connected to the institutional church. The situation is similar to a malaise that has beset mainline Protestantism over the last half century -- where decline and institutional tepidness are more about the failure to engergize and retain the young than about the death of the old. Larger cultural dynamics are also at work. Consider the widespread assumption in our "seeker" milieu that one can be close to the divine without being close to a church. Googling God is a how-to book on ministering to two distinct generations in the Catholic Church that includes a look at recent historical and technological changes and their effect on young adults. - Publisher.