FACULTY - Jeremy Myers
Assistant Professor
I was raised in Chicago’s south suburbs with a love for the city, an understanding of faith as a call to freedom and justice, and a penchant for questioning authority. Therefore I love everything for which Augsburg College stands.
My approach to instruction includes a faithful, honest and critical look at people’s lived realities while simultaneously attempting to seek and proclaim meaning, truth and hope within the context of that reality. This is also how I approach my discipline of Youth and Family Ministry. Therefore, I will often incorporate the insights of sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and ritual studies into the class’s theological process.
I am mainly interested in how young people interact with religion in traditional and non-traditional ways. My areas of study include adolescent images of God, effective home rituals, the ways in which teens pray and read scripture with parents and other adults, the ways in which teens talk about Christ’s presence and activity in their lives, the integration of communal contemplative prayer exercises into congregational leadership, the ways in which adolescents ritualize their faith and their passage into adulthood, and the symbols which youth claim to be significant to their process of meaning-making.