ephebiphobia… are you scared?
Craig, Blackburn DYO, looks for the floating Candles in ChristChurch College Oxford's dining hall where Harry Potter is filmed!
I spent a day with a number of youth and children’s specialists from the Church of England reflecting on the state of church engagement with young people. We met at ChristChurch College in Oxford where the Harry Potter Dining Hall scenes are filmed (see picture)
This post has some more detail about the topic areas we aimed to cover. During our discussions a difficult theme emerged. Ephebiphobia or the fear of youth could be one of the reasons (there are others!!) that the church struggles to work/minister with young adolescents (14+).
Read more about ephebiphobia on this wiki entry:
The fear of youth is called ephebiphobia.[1] First coined as the “fear and loathing of teenagers,”[2] today the phenomenon is recognized as the “inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people” in a range of settings around the world.[3] Studies of the fear of youth occur in sociology and youth studies. Continue here
Are we really frightened and scared of young people? What prevents the church from embracing work with young people as part of the community? Comments here
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