Emerging Sexual Identities: Navigating the Landscape with Today's Youth - Softcover

Mark Yarhouse; Julia Sadusky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587436442 ISBN 13: 9781587436444

Publisher: Baker Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 20.8% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ+. This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse sexual identities that are embraced by more and more adolescents, and explains how these identities function in the lives of today’s youth. Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer a nuanced, thoughtful, and orthodox approach for readers accompanying those navigating sexual orientation questions, including parents, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, and counselors. They help readers understand the new taxonomy of sexual identities that enable today’s youth to account for their sexuality in a more precise way. Based on the authors’ significant clinical and ministry experience, Emerging Sexual Identities places this cultural development in historical context and casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse sexual identities.

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About the Author

Mark Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he also directs the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. Julia Sadusky (PsyD, Regent University) is a clinical psychologist who owns a private practice in Littleton, Colorado. She is also a consultant, a speaker, and a fellow at the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. They are coauthors of Emerging Gender Identities.

From the Back Cover

Understanding Today's Sexual Identity Revolution

This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse sexual identities that are embraced by more and more adolescents, and explains how these identities function in the lives of today's youth.

"In an era when so many conversations about sexuality feel hurried and anxious, this book is brilliantly patient. A valuable resource for ministers, care providers, and parents alike."
--Gregory Coles, author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers

"For youth ministers and parents asking, 'What do young people really mean when they talk about their sexual or gender identities?'--this book is a gracious guide."
--Laurie Krieg, author and director of parent programs at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender

"Emerging Sexual Identities offers grace-filled, biblically grounded, practical wisdom, helping us deepen the relationships with those we love when they need us most."
--Mark Matlock, founder of WisdomWorks; author of Faith for the Curious

"A very timely and important book that will guide parents and parish/school staff to more informed, balanced, pastoral, and fruitful parenting and youth ministry."
--Most Rev. Thomas R. Zinkula, Archbishop of Dubuque

"Christian ministers will find this a particularly helpful tool for understanding young people right where they are and for engaging their self-perception and journey of faith in creative ways."
--Anna Carter, cofounder and president, Eden Invitation

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587436442
• ISBN 13: 9781587436444
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224