Garber recounts conversations with many young adults, exploring the questions “What do you care about, and why?” and pushing to discover: “What is it that happens when a person , moving from student years into adulthood, continues to construct a coherent life? How does a worldview become a way of life? How do students learn to connect presuppostions with practice – belief about the world with life in the world?”
Garber has much to say about the process of faith formation during the post-high school, young adult years, the purposes of education, the integration of faith and learning. As he talks with adults who have moved on to mature faith, those who “with substantial integrity have connected belief to behavior, personally as well as publicly,” he identifies three essentials, or what he calls three “strands” that must be woven together:
