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Book Review: The Promise of Despair by Andrew Root

Last Updated July 28, 2010 by Matt Leave a Comment

Quite the title, isn’t it? Yes, The Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church by Andrew Root has quite the suggestive title, but that is part of the point. This is a book about death, in both a literal and symbolic sense. Death is not limited to people […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Theology Tagged With: death, despair, Luther, theology of the cross, Andrew Root

Get a FREE Copy of Relationships Unfiltered by Andrew Root

Last Updated July 27, 2010 by Matt 4 Comments

[NOTE: THE FREE COPY OF THE BOOK IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. 230 BOOKS GOT MAILED OUT. BUT READ BELOW TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET 40% OFF THE BOOK] Below is a message from Andrew Root, Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, and author of the books Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, […]

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Andrew Root’s New LiveBlog: Today at 3:30 PM

Last Updated September 22, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

If you are of an admirer of Andrew Root, you might be pleased to know that he has started a “LiveBlog” that will air live today, Tuesday September 22 at 3:30 PM (I’m almost positive it is central time). The current topic is his new book Relationships Unfiltered. It is essentially an internet radio show, […]

Filed Under: Youth Ministry Tagged With: Andrew Root

Book Review: Relationships Unfiltered by Andrew Root

Last Updated September 21, 2009 by Matt 2 Comments

Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships by Andrew Root is a condensed and popularized version of his groundbreaking first book Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation (read my review here). Just a look at the subtitles reveals the shift in […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews, Theology, Youth Ministry Tagged With: Andrew Root, incarnation

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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