Youth Ministry as Entering the Dark Night with Young People
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Importance of Boundaries in Relational Youth Ministry
boundaries in relational youth ministry (being open and closed)
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Youth Worker Journal : Young People and Identity in a Digital Age
Andrew Root discusses the problem of identity in the digital age, and the prevalence of teen despair. Andrew writes for YouthWorker Journal and is Assistant Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also the author of “Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry” (IVP) and “Relationships Unfiltered” (Zondervan).
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Youth Worker Journal
Andrew Root talks about the importance of relationships in youth ministry, and the relevance of the Incarnation. Andrew writes for YouthWorker Journal and is Assistant Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also the author of “Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry” (IVP) and “Relationships Unfiltered” (Zondervan).
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Who Am I? Adolescent Identity in the Digital Age
Michelle and Madison were under the same roof but in two different worlds. They were thousands of miles apart though only 30 feet separated them. Both sat looking at their own computer screens: Madison video-Skyping with her neighbor and a foreign exchange student, updating her Flickr account and checking her photo ratings; Michelle, her mother,…
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A New Generation Demands New Categories for Theology and Ministry
Lily Allen is a mostly unknown name in the United States, but in the UK she is ubiquitous. Her picture is plastered all over the daily papers, her pop songs blare from the radio, and gossip of her escapades fill the tabloids. Lily Allen is one the UK’s great paparazzi magnets because she is one…
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A Call to See and Be Near
An infected person with a glowing green hand touches others who then contract glowing green hands, and who each pass along the glowing green infection to another and then another. This is often how we believe suffering operates. We implicitly assume it’s passed on like an infection, like the green hand. Youth ministry has historically…
