Baby boomers and beyond: Tapping the ministry talents and passions of adults over 50

In 1990, Dychtwald declared the baby boomer generation to be the most significant societal force of American culture and warned of an impending age wave this generation would bring Ken Dychtwald. 1990. [...] she offered a succinct overview of the historical view of retirement in comparison to the contemporary view of retirement, part of which includes a retirement trend based around the idea of a "cycUc approach to life" (78). [...] she contrasted the recent Americanized view of retnement with a biblical view of retirement; she argued that retirement is a "relatively new concept" (74) that differs from the bibUcal view of not retiring but merely changing forms of work and service in later years of life.