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Halloween

Last Updated November 1, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

So, I bought pounds of candy to hand out to the little hoodlums in our neighborhood tonight. Thus far, the doorbell has rung twice. Crap.

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Tony Jones Believes in Absolute Truth

Last Updated October 9, 2006 by Matt 2 Comments

For some reason, those who are critics of Tony Jones tend to get caught up with the idea that he doesn’t believe in “absolute truth”. And of course, since “absolute truth” is one of those non-negotiable, in-the-bible, part-of-historical-orthodoxy, make-it-or-break-it kind of beliefs, he gets cast by these people as a heretic (as a totally random […]

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Random Tidbits

Last Updated September 27, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

A few interesting things I’ve read recently: CNN.com: “God references quashed; ‘VeggieTales’ creator steamed” – Not surprisingly, there’s been a bit of buzz about the fact that NBC, who bought the rights to VeggieTales, has been removing overt references to God in order to secularize the show.  Honestly, did anyone think that NBC would air […]

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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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