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Leland, J., Wingert, P., Gatland, L., Weingarden, J., Reno, J., Nelson, M., et al. (2000, May
8). Searching For a Holy Spirit. Newsweek, 135, 60-63.
Lubans, J. (1999, September). When students hit the surf: What kids really do on the
Internet, and what they want from librarians. School Library Journal, 45, 144-147.
Retrieved July 21, 2002 from
http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA153025.
Mendels, P. (2000, April 19). Librarian, long an Internet booster, sees clouds on Web
horizon. New York Times on the Web. Retrieved July 21, 2002, from
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/education/19education.html.
Nash, S. (1999, October 10). Keeping kids safe online. PC Magazine, 18, 35.
Overton, R. (2000, April). Minor markets. PC Computing, 13, 52.
Strand, C. (2000, July-August). Cyberspirituality. New Age, 86-89.
Strupp, J. (1999, May 15). Wealth of online sites offer a personal pew. Editor &Publisher,
132, 30-31.
U.S. Department of Commerce and Economic Statistics Administration Bureau of the Census
(2002) ―Current Population Reports,‖ Table 2, p. 56 shows the number of 13-19-
year-olds to be 28,226,000.
Webber, R. (2000, September-October). Finding Hope in the Coming Generation. Worship
Leader, 12.
Weiss, J. (1999, June 27). Life it or not, everyday life tangled up in the Web. The Dallas
Morning News. Retrieved July 21, 2002, from http://nl9.newsbank.com/nl-
search/we/Archives.
Acknowledgments
This paper was produced as part of a joint project of the American Family Foundation (AFF –
www.culticstudies.org) and the Center for Youth Studies (CYS – www.centerforyouth.org).
The project was funded by the Bodman Foundation. The authors wish to thank Dr. Michael
Langone, Executive Director of AFF, for the planning of the paper and editorial assistance,
Joseph Wang, a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, for collecting and
analyzing survey data related to this research, and Anne Montague and Jonathan Ketcham
for clerical and research assistance. The project to which this paper contributed produced a
Web site designed to help young people find credible sources of information on religion:
www.faithresource.org. The Web site is still in the developmental stage.
Alison Lutz earned a B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta and is currently in a M.Div.
program at Emory‘s Candler School of Theology.
Rev. Dean Borgman is the Charles E. Culpepper Professor of Youth Ministries at Gordon-
Conwell Theological Seminary and director of the Center for Youth Studies. He has spent
his life in youth work, training, and as professor of youth ministries in seminaries around
the world. He is an adjunct professor at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary (Brookline,
MA), Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA), and DayStar University College (Nairobi,
Kenya).
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2002, Volume 1, Part 2,
pages 137-150. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume.
This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
Leland, J., Wingert, P., Gatland, L., Weingarden, J., Reno, J., Nelson, M., et al. (2000, May
8). Searching For a Holy Spirit. Newsweek, 135, 60-63.
Lubans, J. (1999, September). When students hit the surf: What kids really do on the
Internet, and what they want from librarians. School Library Journal, 45, 144-147.
Retrieved July 21, 2002 from
http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articleArchive&articleid=CA153025.
Mendels, P. (2000, April 19). Librarian, long an Internet booster, sees clouds on Web
horizon. New York Times on the Web. Retrieved July 21, 2002, from
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/cyber/education/19education.html.
Nash, S. (1999, October 10). Keeping kids safe online. PC Magazine, 18, 35.
Overton, R. (2000, April). Minor markets. PC Computing, 13, 52.
Strand, C. (2000, July-August). Cyberspirituality. New Age, 86-89.
Strupp, J. (1999, May 15). Wealth of online sites offer a personal pew. Editor &Publisher,
132, 30-31.
U.S. Department of Commerce and Economic Statistics Administration Bureau of the Census
(2002) ―Current Population Reports,‖ Table 2, p. 56 shows the number of 13-19-
year-olds to be 28,226,000.
Webber, R. (2000, September-October). Finding Hope in the Coming Generation. Worship
Leader, 12.
Weiss, J. (1999, June 27). Life it or not, everyday life tangled up in the Web. The Dallas
Morning News. Retrieved July 21, 2002, from http://nl9.newsbank.com/nl-
search/we/Archives.
Acknowledgments
This paper was produced as part of a joint project of the American Family Foundation (AFF –
www.culticstudies.org) and the Center for Youth Studies (CYS – www.centerforyouth.org).
The project was funded by the Bodman Foundation. The authors wish to thank Dr. Michael
Langone, Executive Director of AFF, for the planning of the paper and editorial assistance,
Joseph Wang, a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, for collecting and
analyzing survey data related to this research, and Anne Montague and Jonathan Ketcham
for clerical and research assistance. The project to which this paper contributed produced a
Web site designed to help young people find credible sources of information on religion:
www.faithresource.org. The Web site is still in the developmental stage.
Alison Lutz earned a B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta and is currently in a M.Div.
program at Emory‘s Candler School of Theology.
Rev. Dean Borgman is the Charles E. Culpepper Professor of Youth Ministries at Gordon-
Conwell Theological Seminary and director of the Center for Youth Studies. He has spent
his life in youth work, training, and as professor of youth ministries in seminaries around
the world. He is an adjunct professor at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary (Brookline,
MA), Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA), and DayStar University College (Nairobi,
Kenya).
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2002, Volume 1, Part 2,
pages 137-150. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume.
This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
