Publication Date
7-23-2025
Keywords
Pastoral Care, Residential Treatment Centers, Existential and Spiritual Processes, Literature
Abstract
This article reflects on my experiences as an educator at a Residential Treatment Center, observing the spiritual battles being fought by some residents as they attempt to rectify their lives after their involvement in sexual abuse. It will review literature that has been successful in my classroom with helping young people change their mind concerning their irredeemableness and that can also improve how evangelical attempts across Christian dominations pastor to those who feel scorned by God. Due to the mentality of some residents who have deeply struggled with the concepts of forgiveness and regret, literature is offered as starting point in such conversations to help awaken the young person to the possibility of their own redemption.
Recommended Citation
Newton, Christian P.
(2025)
"Reaching the Young and Hopeless: Rooting for Redemption at a Residential Treatment Center,"
Say Something Theological: The Student Journal of Theological Studies: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
DOI: 10.15365/sst.2025.9795
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/saysomethingtheological/vol8/iss1/8
DOI
10.15365/sst.2025.9795
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