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My educated guess is that when students look back at the last two decades in youth ministry scholarship, they'll call it a renaissance. It will be acknowledged as the period where youth ministry founded its own research programs and matured into a location of rich theological thought. When that history is written, David White's Practicing Discernment will sit at the top of the list of examples. This book that you hold has broken ground, making space for others like me to do my work. I'm incredibly thankful for David's work, and honored to endorse the re-release of this important, groundbreaking book. If you somehow missed it before--or it's been years since you read it--dive into this re-release. You won't be disappointed. --Andrew Root, Luther Seminary and author of Faith Formation in a Secular Age In Practicing Discernment with Youth, David White paints a lush vision for youth ministry that takes seriously the wisdom, power, and vocation of young people called into a discipleship of action. More than a decade after the book's original release, youth ministry continues to wander in the desert of domestication, capitulating to approaches smeared with consumerism and spectacle, and White's vision for youth ministry patterned by Christian discernment remains a crucial map for exiting the wilderness. -- Andrew Zirschky, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Youth Ministry, Memphis Theological Seminary, Academic Director at the Center for Youth Ministry Training, and author of Beyond the Screen: Youth Ministry for the Connected But Alone Generation. If you read only one book on youth ministry, it should be this book. If you are a practical theologian, here is a thoughtful diagnosis of how our maladaptive culture distorts young lives. If you train youth workers, here is a concise introduction to the church's treasure chest of discernment practices. If you are a youth worker, here is a detailed, practical guide to equipping youth to discern the call of God throughout their lives. --Skip Masback, Founding Director of the Youth Ministry Initiative, Associate Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, and Director of YCFC's Adolescent Faith and Flourishing Program.

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David F. White is the C. Ellis Nelson Professor of Christian Education at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. He is the author of Dreamcare: A Theology of Youth, Spirit, and Vocation (2013) and co-author of Awakening Youth Discipleship: Christian Resistance in a Consumer Culture (2007).

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