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Bookshelf Anomalies #3: Knowing Man & Sex God

Last Updated August 14, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

Bookshelf Anomalies #1 Bookshelf Anomalies #2 In the first two installments of Bookshelf Anomalies I highlighted pairs of books that were ideologically at odds with one another. In this edition, it’s not the actual content of the books that makes things interesting. It’s just the way the titles go together. The two books are: Knowing […]

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Bookshelf Anomalies #2: Old Testament Exegesis & Struggling with Scripture

Last Updated August 8, 2008 by Matt 8 Comments

Bookshelf Anomalies #1 These two books fall fairly neatly into conservative and liberal/progressive categories. Old Testament Exegesis (by Douglas Stuart of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is a handbook of sorts for students and pastors, providing a systematic way for studying and exegeting a passage of scripture. Struggling with Scripture is a different kind of book, a […]

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Bookshelf Anomalies #1: The Culture-Wise Family & Velvet Elvis

Last Updated August 7, 2008 by Matt 9 Comments

I’m a little OCD in my book organization. All of my library is on LibraryThing, including each book’s Library of Congress catalog number. So, I arrange my books in order of their Library of Congress number. There might be a few mistakes, but regardless, I put my books on the shelf just like LibraryThing sorts […]

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Books, Books, Books…

Last Updated June 9, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

Finished a few books in the past week or so: Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends, by Kevin Vanhoozer, ed. This is a great book on how to make theological sense of culture. Vanhoozer writes the introductory essay that outlines his method for such interpretation, and is worth buying the book. […]

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Now Reading: The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer in Christian Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas

Last Updated May 18, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I also started another book this week: The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics. I’ve had the book for a while and have wanted to read something by Hauerwas, who intrigues me even though I’ve never read anything of his. I got introduced to him via quotes I read on blogs and these videos […]

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Now Reading: Awakening Youth Discipleship: Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture by Brian J. Mahan, Michael Warren, and David F. White

Last Updated May 18, 2008 by Matt 4 Comments

I started reading a new book Friday that I’m really excited about. I read Practicing Discernment With Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach by David F. White last year and really enjoyed about 2/3 of the book. I liked where White was coming from in the book, but thought that he didn’t exactly take his […]

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Book Review: All the Ideas Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Truth by Don Everts

Last Updated August 20, 2015 by Matt Leave a Comment

  As someone who has been in ministry on college campuses since 1994 through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Don Everts is no stranger to ideas. College campuses are breeding grounds for dialogue, debate, idea sharing, and general philosophizing. It wasn’t until having an email conversation about the nature of the authority of scripture that Everts really […]

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Brian McLaren has Another Book Out?

Last Updated May 7, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I must have really been living under a rock for the past few months. I didn’t even know he was working on a book, and I read on another blog that he just released another book. The man is a machine. I wonder what controversy he’ll stir up this time.

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Now Reading: Everyday Theology by Kevin Vanhoozer (ed.)

Last Updated April 17, 2008 by Matt 1 Comment

As I said yesterday, I hoped to pick up a good book in the evening, and I did. I’ve been looking forward to reading Everyday Theology since it first came out. I’ve been a fan of Vanhoozer ever since I was introduced to him in Dr. Castleman’s class. I expect this to be a somewhat […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry, Chapter 2

Last Updated August 24, 2007 by Matt 2 Comments

Chapter two in PMYM is titled, “A missional agenda”, which is highly necessary given the current reality of living in a post-Christian world. Essentially, Tony argues for a kind of youth ministry that is missional at its core: As we youth workers begin to see ourselves as misisonaries, we can reconfigure our job descriptions so […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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