Associate Professor of Christian Education

B.A. Trinity University
M.Div. Brite Divinity School
D.Theol. Harvard Divinity School

Dr. Yust’s work focuses on the spiritual formation of persons across the life-span and in a variety of roles and settings. Her major publications include Attentive to God, which proposes an alternative strategy for adult faith formation and leadership development, Real Kids, Real Faith, which opens a dialogue with parents about spirituality in the home, and an edited volume, Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religions, which invites interreligious discourse on faith formation from birth to age 20. Her latest book, Taught by God, explores the relationship between transformational learning theories and classical spiritual practices. She is ordained with dual standing in the UCC and Disciples traditions.

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