Author: Duncan

Duncan Macleod lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World

Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, edited by Jonathon S. Epstein. Another book from Fuzz Kitto’s library I hadn’t seen before. Written in 1998 and published by Blackwell Publishers in the UK. Epstein provides a helpful introduction to Generation X, youth culture and identity. I was fascinated with Steven Best and Douglas Kellner’s article on “Beavis and Butt-Head” – they look at the impact of popular TV media on youth. Other topics in the book include sexuality & body politics, education, industrial-hard core music subculture, deadhead subculture, rave scene, punk and cyberpunk, gender in Canadian heavy metal music, and amateur stripping.

Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World

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Postmodern Youth Ministry On The Shelf

Postmodern Youth Ministry

I was looking through Fuzz Kitto’s library in Sydney and found Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones. Tony’s one of the Emergent Village crew and has recently finished up as Young Adults pastor in Edina, Minnesota to do a Ph.D in Princeton. The book is published by Youth Specialties who have published online an appendix by Tony, talking about his experience of writing and talking about philosophy and youth ministry. I like the layout of the book – quotes are expressed in non-boring format. He models an approach to dialogue by including the comments of his reviewers – before the book goes to print!

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Postmission – world mission by a postmodern generation

Postmission was put together by a group of Gen X leaders of mission organisations, mostly from the UK, who gathered for a week’s retreat. I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of thought developed here. It was helpful to have theories grounded in stories of mission organisations. Not too many books of this type actually engage with source material by postmodernists such as Foucault, Lyotard and Deleuze. I appreciate the application of workplace generational approaches to mission organisations.
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Levi 501 Jeans Baptised

Earlier in 2003 Levi Strauss developed a TV advert for Levi 501 jeans – made it in Australia and tried it in NZ. The ad starts with a train arriving in the night. Off steps a woman to meet friends in a waiting car. They drive through the city to the river, beneath the bridge. She wades out into the water, followed by her three friends. They take off shirts and jeans. With the help of her friends she is baptised, fully immersed, in the dark water. As she comes out of the water she is wearing jeans. The text appears: “Born Again” “Re-Cut 501 Jeans Men-Women”.

Girl baptised in Levis TV ad

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Episcopalian Gen Xer Clergy Gather The Next Generation

Gathering the Next Generation

Gathering The Next Generations: A project for Episcopalian clergy in the United States, born between 1961 and 1981. There’s a book of the same name edited by Nathan Humphrey – a collection of essays well worth reading.

The first section deals with issues surrounding the process for selecting and training the church’s clergy as they relate to Generation X. The second section looks at curacy as mentoring, campus ministries and bivocational ministry. The third section looks at four groups whose presence in the ordained ministry has grown significantly in GenX: Xers, African Americans, Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Transexual persons, and women. The fourth section addresses issues directly related to parish ministry by members of Generation X.
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