Cultivating Faith in Young Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Kerry A. Robinson

Current data on trends toward agnosticism, atheism, and religious disaffiliation is compelling and deeply challenging for religious leaders who want to be effective in transmitting faith to succeeding generations and cultivating mature, adult faith in their churches’ members. However, where there is present the desire for meaning, belonging, forgiveness, self- and communal improvement, joy, consolation, or a deeper understanding of life’s big questions, there is a need for religious leadership and pastoral care. There are eight principal insights that can help redress the trend of young adults to eschew religion altogether or to drift and disaffiliate from their religious upbringing. Among the core components that the most effective religious leaders are mindful of are early, personal invitation; leadership formation and training; allowing for mentors; creating a welcoming atmosphere; attending to cognitive expectations; attending to affective expectations; striving for excellence in liturgical, sacramental, communal, and programmatic life; and recognizing the role of parents and family members.

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Asri Karolina ◽  
Wilyam Afsiska ◽  
Beni Azwar ◽  
Cikdin Cikdin ◽  
Eka Yanuarti

The purpose of this study is to describe the condition of Islamic religious education in children of gold miners in the Kampung Jawa Village, find out the role of parents in instilling Islamic religious education especially moral education in their children, helping the problematic role of parents in instilling Islamic religious education in particular moral education in children in Kampung Jawa Village. This type of research is qualitative research. The type of data used in this study are primary and secondary data. The subjects in this study were the village chief, religious leaders and gold miner parents. Data collection techniques are structured interviews, observation and documentation. The final step is drawing conclusions and verification. Based on the results of the study show that: first, the condition of Islamic religious education in the children of gold miners in the Kampung Jawa Village, namely religious understanding can be quite good. Second, the role of parents of gold miners in instilling moral education to their children varies depending on the understanding of parental religious knowledge. Third, the probelmatic role of parents consists of internal factors that are constrained by parents who are busy working that make children less controlled to behave properly according to Islamic teachings, external factors that are constrained by children unruly and difficult to be advised.


Author(s):  
Rowland U. Aleshi ◽  
Clementina N. Iloh

This essay discusses the concepts of theatre arts and education, and the convergence of theatre arts education in national reformation. In-between cultural norms and religious values, the theatre artist as an evangelist can provide solutions to reform the declining morals and values of society. This crucial role of the theatre artist is what the author articulates and urges us to consider as an option to regain our country’s lost glory. The increasing threat of social degeneration and global insecurity calls for this genre to bring about peace, unity, prosperity and development in Nigeria. The author recommends that government and stakeholders should give support and recognition to theatre arts as a profession and remind parents, teachers, community and religious leaders to restore family values. Theatre arts can crystallize action for national rebirth or re-orientation as it mirrors the society and propagates strict spiritual, moral and behavioral education to characterize child upbringing and training. Theatre arts education can influence character and moral discipline in youths and make the society a better place by stemming the tide of the growing number of delinquents who are easily enlisted and indoctrinated by terrorists, gangsters, fraudsters, kidnappers and armed robbers.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Fitriani Pramita Gurning ◽  
Fauziah Nasution ◽  
Eliska Eliska

The frequent occurrence of drug abuse and premarital sex which is indicated from the frequent occurrence of raids on drug cases in Langkat District, the high number of early childhood marriages that still occur. This is compounded by the inactivity of religiously oriented adolescent activities, where previously youth groups tended to be active in empowering adolescents. School is one of the places for adolescent interaction and in one day many teenagers spend their time in school. The form of community facilitation activities with counseling activities, peer education training and mentoring through whatup media groups and also conducting counseling to parents aimed at increasing the knowledge and role of parents as agents of socialization to adolescents, peer education training aimed at increasing the role of adolescents as peer educators and assistance aimed at assisting adolescent peer educators in planning for, and dealing with problems related to the dangers of drugs, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. An increase in students' knowledge after getting counseling and training about the dangers of drugs, HIV/AIDS and adolescent reproductive health. Suggestions for further activities are the need for traning of trainers for adolescent doctors and assistance in making adolescent health programs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
M. Yusuf Daeng ◽  
Muhammad Fadly Daeng Yusuf

Narcotics abuse can be categorized as a criminal act as regulated in Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics. The method used in this research is socio-legal research. In Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics, there is no distinction between the abuse committed by children who are already drug addicts and children who are victims of narcotics abuse and are taking narcotics for the first time, so that these children are combined at the time of the crime. It is hoped that there will be political will from the Government of the Republic of Indonesia to revise Law Number 35 of 2009 concerning Narcotics in order to provide legal protection for children who are victims of narcotics abuse. One of the obstacles faced by the Riau Regional Police in eradicating narcotics abuse by children is the minimal role of parents who are willing to report their children. Therefore, the Riau Regional Police should cooperate with religious leaders from MUI, traditional leaders from LAM Riau, as well as community leaders in order to provide enlightenment to the public about the dangers of narcotics abuse for the future of children.


2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 294-305
Author(s):  
Khamis Abdullah Said AL BUSAIDI ◽  
Salim Humaid Rashid AL BADAI ◽  
Rahma Nasir Salim AL SAADI

This study aim to identify the roles of student’s parents’ councils, and examine the possibility of developing them by reviewing international experiences in this field, and benefiting from the outputs of the fourth industrial revolution in the education sector. The study also focus on the actual role of parents’ councils in schools in the Sultanate, and the efforts made to achieve partnership with society, and developing the regulations governing these councils, to keep pace with global scientific developments which depend on granting broad powers to these councils in order to be able to perform their work more effectively and with broader independence, and one of the most prominent recommendations that came out of this study is the need to carefully select the members of parents councils according to A specific mechanism that ensures the selection of the active members in society, developing the roles of parents’ councils by expanding the powers granted to them, increasing the awareness of school staff, and making the council members aware of the importance of partnership in the areas of joint cooperation between them, which include (vision, goals, planning, managing financial resources, etc.), and the necessity of holding programs And training courses for members of student parents’ councils, and school staff, on the requirements for developing the roles of these councils in the light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and developing programs and methods for teacher preparation in higher education institutions, in line with the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the Ministry of Education adopting a national strategy aimed at Designing educational and training programs that are compatible with the nature of the next stage, and the needs of the labor market in light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Sri Ismawati ◽  

This study is directed to examine the issue of child marriage from the perspective of criminal politics. Criminal political perspective child marriage is a perspective that not only sees the problem of child marriage solely as a matter of criminal law, but also tries to look at the problem of child marriage from a non-legal perspective. By using normative and juridical approach, the results showed that the perspective of politics of criminal law of child marriage is to see the problem of child marriage solely as a matter of criminal law, but also tries to look at the problem of child marriage from a non-legal perspective. The politics of criminal law with a penal approach can be done by using integrative formulation, revision, criminalization, penalization of child marriage, law enforcement against criminal acts related to child marriage, encouraging the making of Regional Regulations, Governor Regulations or Regulations of Regents. On other hand, the non-penal approach is by empowering the role of parents by conducting education, education and self-esteem; empowering the role of religious leaders, community leaders, traditional leaders; family economic empowerment, education empowerment and integral policy models


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