Kenda Creasy Dean

Kenda Creasy Dean

Kenda Creasy Dean is an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, and Associate Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry.  A graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, she served as a pastor in suburban Washington, DC and as Wesley Foundation Director at the University of Maryland-College Park before coming to Princeton Seminary.  Kenda and her husband Kevin are the proud parents of Brendan (a junior in the film conservatory at Purchase College) and Shannon (a junior at Princeton High School).  Her most recent books include Oblivious:  What the Faith of American Teenagers Is Telling the American Church (Oxford, forthcoming) and Generation OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook, ed. (Abingdon, forthcoming).  An Ohio native who somehow wound up in New Jersey, she loves the beach but still roots for the Buckeyes.

Other Books:

Youth, Religion and Globalization, New Research in Practical Theology, eds. Richard R. Osmer and Kenda Creasy Dean (Zurich: LIT Verlag GmbH Co., 2007).

Practicing Passion:  Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church, (Eerdmans, 2004).

Starting Right:  Thinking Theologically About Youth Ministry, eds. Kenda Creasy Dean, Chap Clark, and Dave Rahn. (Zondervan/Youth Specialties Academic, 2001).

The Godbearing Life:  The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry. Nashville: Upper Room, 1998.  Co-author with Ron Foster.