009. Everything You Need to Know About the Next Generation ft. Kara Powell

**About the Guest** Kara Powell leads the Fuller Youth Institute as its Executive Director, where for more than twenty years her team has tracked how young people are changing across three generational cohorts, from Millennials to Gen Z to Gen Alpha. She holds a PhD in Practical Theology and has helped shape some of the most widely used research on the next generation. **AMA Opportunity** Leave us a review for a chance to ask John a question on an upcoming episode. To enter, follow the podcast, leave your review, take a screenshot of it, and email it over with your question to editors@formationpodcast.com. One question per person, screenshot required. **What This Conversation Explores** - What has mostly stayed the same about young people across two decades of research, and what's vastly different - What Gen Alpha needs from adults, and how their faith formation is taking shape - Whether the data points to a genuine revival among young people, or something more nuanced - Screen time and what it’s doing to our kids - Whether teens today take fewer risks than past generations - What kind of intergenerational relationships Gen Alpha is actually looking for and how they’re a benefit to all - How to have more formative conversations with the young people in your life (and the scripts to get you there) - What it's like to study faith formation for a living, and how it has shaped Kara's own spiritual life - Whether some of the anxiety adults feel about this generation is really about the adults' own viewpoints - How Kara is being formed personally **Resources Mentioned** - Fuller Youth Institute: fulleryouthinstitute.org/subscribe - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt - Growing Young — Fuller Youth Institute - Future Focused Church — Fuller Youth Institute - Free Gen Alpha report — fulleryouthinstitute.org - Like Dew Your Youth by Eugene Peterson - Chap Clark — the 5-to-1 ratio - Dallas Willard - Dietrich Bonhoeffer — the "chief sinner" idea - Dave Wang, Fuller Theological Seminary **About Formation** Formation is a podcast that explores the science and soul of spiritual formation. Each episode brings together the ancient wisdom of the contemplative tradition and the best of modern research. John Ortberg sits down with some of the most rigorous and honest thinkers working at the intersection of faith and human flourishing for extended, unhurried conversations about how we are being shaped. New episodes every other week, wherever you listen to podcasts. **Connect with Formation** formationpodcast.com  @formationjohn Formation is produced by Become New, a community dedicated to helping you grow spiritually, one day at a time. Subscribe for daily teaching from John Ortberg at becomenew.com/subscribe. Would you do us a favor? Make sure you're following the podcast. (It helps the show reach more people.)