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Dallas Independent School District is a Joke

Last Updated April 18, 2009 by Matt 2 Comments

I don’t live in the boundaries of DISD, but it is by far the largest school district in our metroplex area, so it gets all of the media coverage. And for good reason. They are clueless. I have lived in the area for less than three years, and in that amount of time, these stories […]

Filed Under: News, Random Tagged With: DISD, education

The Bailout, Education, and Youth Ministry

Last Updated September 26, 2008 by Matt 5 Comments

[Note: If your head is in the sand and don’t know what is going on in the economy and the government right now, go to your favorite news website.  It will be on the front page.  I promise.  Read up.] On Sunday morning during Sunday school, I asked my high school students, some of whom […]

Filed Under: News, Youth Ministry Tagged With: bailout, education

Open Letter to Public Schools

Last Updated May 9, 2008 by Matt 1 Comment

…over at the Youth Ministry Hilarity! blog. He makes some really great points. A quote: You complain that our kids are too tired, but then you make them stay after school for HOURS of extracurricular practice! They lack concentration, so you lengthen their school year. You make them work at camps from 9:00 to 5:00 […]

Filed Under: Youth Ministry Tagged With: education, school

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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