From Pointers, Volume 16. Number 3. September 2006. 
Youth Spirituality Roundtable
On 21st and 22nd March 2007, a Roundtable was held to discuss the results and the implications of a four year study of youth spirituality.
A pilot project was begun in 2002. The study involved two rounds of interviews with young people plus a major national telephone survey of 1200 young people.
The Chief Investigators were Assoc.Prof. Ruth Webber and Dr. Michael Mason (ACU), Dr. Andrew Singleton (Monash) and Rev Dr Philip Hughes (CRA).
The project has been sponsored by 17 organisations.
Several of the presentations made at the Roundtable are available below.
Implications Of The Study Of Youth Spirituality
Monday, April 19th, 2010Youth Spirituality: How Young People Change
Monday, April 19th, 2010
From Pointers Volume 16. Number 3. September 2006.
Two years ago members of the Christian Research Association interviewed young people around Australia as part of its study of youth spirituality about their values, goals, spiritual beliefs and practices. In the final stage of the
The Church’s Future: Engaging Youth Today – Hughes
Monday, April 19th, 2010The first presentation at the Youth Spirituality Roundtable was given by Dr Philip Hughes. He outlined some major findings from the research on how young people put life together and explored some of the implications. His presentation can be downloaded from this site.
Launch Of ‘putting Life Together’
Monday, April 19th, 2010Barney Zwartz, the religion editor of The Age, launched the book Putting Life Together on 21st March 2007. He suggested that the book provides the factual basis for many things that we know intuitively, but does much more than that. For example, Barney Zwartz said he had no intuition that one in five young people are in a state close to despair.