{"id":16698,"date":"2015-01-07T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2015-01-07T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:35:55","slug":"working-together-to-save-youth-in-a-secular-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/working-together-to-save-youth-in-a-secular-age.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Working Together to Save Youth in a Secular Age&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16699\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/777px-Abberley_St_Marys__Village_Green.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16699\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/777px-Abberley_St_Marys__Village_Green-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"A rural scene in Worcestershire\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A church and village green in Worcestershire, UK<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Givens offers <a href=\"http:\/\/difficultrun.nathanielgivens.com\/2015\/01\/07\/working-together-to-save-youth-in-a-secular-age\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another interesting take<\/a> on this topic, which was already raised by the article to which I linked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/getting-it-wrong-how-not-to-save-lds-youth-in-a-secular-age.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my post earlier today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I welcome this discussion. \u00a0I regard it as extremely important, even urgent. \u00a0It\u2019s urgent not because of any particular mass apostasy occurring right now \u2014 such a thing may or may not actually be happening \u2014 but, however that may be, mostly because questions of what to believe about God and the universe and how to act are\u00a0of fundamental\u00a0and pressing\u00a0significance\u00a0in any particular\u00a0life, and in any particular\u00a0family, at all times and in every generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Nathaniel Givens offers another interesting take on this topic, which was already raised by the article to which I linked in my post earlier today. \u00a0 I welcome this discussion. \u00a0I regard it as extremely important, even urgent. \u00a0It\u2019s urgent not because of any particular mass apostasy occurring right now \u2014 such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Working Together to Save Youth in a Secular Age&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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