Volume I • Issue 1 • Fall 2016
Our inaugural issue delves into the issues and ideas alive in the field right now. Academics, poets, practitioners and wayfarers alike examine what it means to come of age in modernity, tackling questions like What is identity? How do we foster community development AND create rites of passage programming that can be sustained? What is the role of initiation in this work?
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Letter From the Editors
by the Confluence Journal Editorial Staff
Diaspora: Thoughts on Journeying
by John Raux
The Courage of Becoming: WSU 4-H Rite of Passage
by Larry Hobbs, Michael Wallace, & Scott Vanderwey
A Critical Time for Jewish Youth:
Rethinking the Bar & Bat Mitzvah
by Zelig Golden & Sarai Shapiro
Initiation and Rites of Passage
by Bill Plotkin
Celebrate with Story
by Gail Burkett
Selections from My Nature is Hunger
by Luis Rodriguez
Bearing Witness:
Rites of Passage to celebrate Transgender Youth
by Parker Schneider & Taylor Solymosy-Poole
The Middle Passage
by Chris Henrikson & Taylor Code
The Growing Life of a Child
by Ben Anthony
The RITE Way Review
by Bret Stephenson
The Rite Way | Youth on Fire Review
by Darcy Ottey