Sally Kohn: The question of purpose that you highlight in your book is what difference can I make? She says a lot of young people are driven by this helping others being almost synonymous, it seems like, with justice. Kohn: It seems like this generation has a supercharged value of justice.
At every age, we ask questions of identity, community, and meaning — Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose? But college students today are asking them with unique urgency and anxiety.
In today's episode, we interview Kara Powell, a researcher at Fuller Youth Institute and co-author of 3 Big Questions that Change Every Teenager. We discuss how young people can better determine their purpose in life, how they can prepare for that purpose to change, and what the Christian tradition might have to offer.