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Dean-k

Associate Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture
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 an ordained elder in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference (United Methodist) 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 pastor in suburban Washington DC and as Wesley foundation director at the University of Maryland-College Park before coming to Princeton Seminary. She 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).
 
Major Publications

Oh My God: A Youth Ministry Handbook (Abingdon Press, forthcoming)
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010)
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 (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004)
Starting Right: Thinking Theologically about Youth Ministry (Youth Specialties Academic/Zondervan, 2001)
The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul-Tending for Youth Ministry  (Upper Room, 1998)