Diana Chapman Walsh

Big Questions, Worthy Dreams

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This is the classic work on emerging adulthood, now updated to reckon with the bewildering and very big questions the past decades have delivered up: think 9/11, Facebook, global recession, climate change. Scholarly, wise, elegant, and deeply insightful, the book is an indispensable resource for all who work with people in the awe- and angst-filled years between eighteen and thirty-two, all who interact with them, and all who care about their safe passage into mature and compassionate adults. And, as Sharon Parks helps us see, all of us should care, because the stakes are high. Mentoring from “hospitable” adults can make all the difference in how high they set their sights and how, more than ever, upcoming generations have fateful choices to make about their lives and our common future that we need them to take up faithfully and fully awake. Parks, a master teacher, lights the way—theirs and ours.”