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May 7, 2008
Sex and Confirmation
The training day for clergy on 'confirmation preparation for young people' seems to go OK despite my pre-occurring nightmare (although I am not going to read the evaluation sheets until tomorrow).
The idea that produced the most reaction today was when I was exploring that many young people felt that their confirmation happened when they were too young and hence before they were really ready. By way of illustration I reflected that some conversations with young people around sex were not dissimilar to conversations about their confirmation, comments about either could be juxtaposed:
"I was too young really"
"I wish I'd waited until I was older"
"I felt pressured into it"
"It wasn't as meaningful as I'd hoped"
Posted by ian at May 7, 2008 3:19 PM
Comments
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Posted by: anon at May 7, 2008 3:42 PM
Anon,
Thanks for that. I might confess to being confirmed
Posted by: Youthblog at May 7, 2008 3:47 PM
An interesting view - I was two years over due on my clock when I eventually was put forward for confirmation and it made me have a good long look at what was going on and the church's way of dealing with it...
It led me to have a critical squint at the whole thing - and I haven't looked back.
Posted by: Free to think, free to believe at May 7, 2008 5:08 PM