I started reading a new book Friday that I’m really excited about. I read Practicing Discernment With Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach by David F. White last year and really enjoyed about 2/3 of the book. I liked where White was coming from in the book, but thought that he didn’t exactly take his thoughts to anywhere, if I remember correctly. He did an excellent job sizing up where youth ministry and teenagers are at currently, but his proposed solutions and ideas seemed lacking.
What looks like to be his latest publication, along with two other authors, is Awakening Youth Discipleship: Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture. The title just sounds interesting. I’m reading the book for a review on Youth Ministry Exchange, so I’ll post my thoughts when I’m done.
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thanks matt one more freaking book for my to read
so i’m doing a post wednesday of Jesus’s favorite blogs…i wonder if he would like yours :0) do you have any you know he would like
Well, if you are doing your snarky and sarcastic things still, I would suggest:
- Seth Godin, so he can be on the cutting edge of marketing
- Zen Habits, so he could start getting his nomadic life a little more nailed down and get some good routines established
- A dating/romance blog, since he obviously had problems with the opposite sex, not being married and all
- A politics blog, so he could learn to get along with the pharisees and the high priest and maybe work together to achieve his goals through the “proper” channels.
That’s all I have for now.
hhahahahaha i will use the dating one for sure…
i haven’t quite decided on it all yet..its fun being ‘snarky’ and getting people to think as well. tomorrows about money is going to be funny…i’m taking one huge potshot
Just reading this now. Have not decided how impressed I am with it yet. Like you I appreciate where they are coming from but sometimes not sure where they are going with it.