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The Positive Side of the One-Eared Mickey Mouse

Last Updated May 22, 2009 by Matt 7 Comments

If you’ve been in youth ministry for any length of time, you have probably heard of the one-eared Mickey Mouse (surprisingly, I couldn’t find a suitable picture online and didn’t feel like making one myself, so hopefully you are familiar with it). For years now we have spoken out against creating a separate “youth church” […]

Filed Under: Youth Ministry Tagged With: innovation, missional, one eared mickey mouse, change

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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