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These are Historic Times

Last Updated October 14, 2008 by Matt 2 Comments

Last night I watched Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos in amazement as I saw republicans, democrats, former Treasury Secretaries, stock traders, and political commentators all agree that government ownership of financial institutions was the only option to get us out of the current financial crisis.  This would usually go against conservative principle, but they […]

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Is the Financial Crisis the Church’s Fault?

Last Updated October 13, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

Tony Jones makes the comment that without a wide swath of our culture subscribing to Calvinism and the “protestant work ethic” free market economies are a thing of the past. Are free markets incompatible with secularism?  Is the only hope for the free markets a Third Great Awakening?  Or maybe the first Global Great Awakening? […]

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The Market is Reaching the Bottom

Last Updated October 10, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’m no economist, but I think it’s a fun game to play.  So, I’m going to make a prediction: we are likely within 1,000 points of the market’s (Dow Jones Industrial Average) bottom.  Now, the recent financial roller coaster isn’t anything to sneeze at: The Dow has fallen 39% in the past year The S&P […]

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More on the Economy: Home Prices

Last Updated September 26, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’m fascinated by the current news happening in the financial markets right now.  For some reason it’s all very interesting to me. One of the most telling article’s I’ve read in recent days is this article from the Wall Street Journal that shows the ratio of median home prices to median incomes.  From 1981-2000, the […]

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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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