Book Reviews

Below are book reviews I’ve written. Many of the books are directly related to youth ministry, others are simply books that those in youth ministry might find helpful.

Best Youth Ministry Books Series at MattCleaver.com:

• Jones, Tony. Postmodern Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2001.
• Ostreicher, Mark. Youth Ministry 3.0. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2008.
• Root, Andrew. Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.
  • And a second post on the book can be found here.

Other Book Reviews at MattCleaver.com

• Everts, Don. All the Ideas Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Truth. Downers Grove: IVP, 2008.
• Peterson, Eugene. Tell it Slant.
• Root, Andrew. Relationships Unfiltered. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2009.
• Samson, Will. Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess.

Hosted at YMExchange.com:

• Baehr, Ted and Pat Boone. The Culture-Wise Family. Ventura: Regal Books, 2007.
• Everts, Don. All the Ideas Living in My Head: One Guy’s Musings About Truth. Downers Grove: IVP, 2008.
• Folmsbee, Chris. A New Kind of Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2007.
• Lytch, Carol. Choosing Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
• Mahan, Brian, Michael Warren, and David White. Awakening Youth Discipleship. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2007.
• McKnight, Scot. A Community Called Atonement. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.
• Root, Andrew. Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.
• Yaconelli, Mark. Growing Souls. Grand Rapids: Youth Specialties, 2007.