Branded, the second title in the Youth Ministry Alternatives series, addresses and examines three key elements: 1) the distortion of adolescent vocation in a consumer-focused culture; 2) the dream that adolescents would discover the freedom to live into a vocational path not dominated by consumer culture; and 3) an educational process of enlivening agency and imagination that would allow for such freedom of vocational development.
Katherine Turpin is an assistant professor at lliff School of theology in Denver, colorado. She received her PH.D. from Emory University. She is a former youth director who currently teaches youth at her local United Methodist Church.