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	Kenda Creasy Dean Associate Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture, and Director of the Tennent School of Christian Education Department of Practical Theology 105 Tennent Hall Phone: 609.497.7910 Fax: 609.279.9014 Email: kenda.dean@ptsem.edu

Profile
Kenda Creasy Dean is associate professor of youth, church, and culture, and director of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Tennent School of Christian Education. An ordained United Methodist minister, she also serves as program mentor for the Timothy Scholars. She holds a master of arts degree in speech communication from Miami University, a master of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. She specializes in Christian formation, pedagogy, and practical theology, focusing on the spiritual formation of adolescents in postmodern culture.

Major Publications
The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry (Upper Room, 1998) Starting Right: Thinking Theologically about Youth Ministry (Youth Specialties Academic/Zondervan, 2001) Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church (Eerdmans, 2004) Outing the Emperor: Changing the Church of Benign Whatever-ism through the Faith of American Teenagers (Oxford University Press, anticipated publication, 2008) Youth, Religion and Globalization, New Research in Practical Theology, eds. Richard R. Osmer and Kenda Creasy Dean (Zurich: LIT Verlag GmbH Co., 2007)