Significance of Crossroads

Crossroads, First Reformed's youth program, symbolizes relativity. Instead of bringing the teenagers together in order to study Biblical stories and themes, Crossroads largely discards the Christian liturgy and scriptures, relying instead upon deep conversations between the group members. The author uses the group as a means of illustrating the relativity of faith and belief, and the ways in which organized religion might be diluted or misconstrued for the individual's or the organization's best interests.