Overview

What is youth ministry actually for? And does it have a future? Andrew Root, a leading scholar in youth ministry and practical theology, went on a one-year journey to answer these questions. In this book, Root weaves together an innovative first-person fictional narrative to diagnose the challenges facing the church today and to offer a new vision for youth ministry in the 21st century. Informed by interviews that Root conducted with parents, this book explores how parents' perspectives of what constitutes a good life are affecting youth ministry. In today's culture, youth ministry can't compete with sports, test prep, and the myriad other activities in which young people participate. Through a unique parable-style story, Root offers a new way to think about the purpose of youth ministry: not happiness, but joy. Joy is a sense of experiencing the good. For youth ministry to be about joy, it must move beyond the youth group model and rework the assumptions of how identity and happiness are imagined by parents in American society. ""

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Author:   Andrew Root
Publisher:   Baker Publishing Group
Imprint:   Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
ISBN:  

9781540961396

ISBN 10:   1540961397
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   15 April 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Warning for the Reader! (Read before Using) 1. Toward a Journey to Joy Late March 2. Don't Waste Your Life: Youth Ministry and the Good Life September 3. Are the Kids OK? Goods and Youth Ministry September 4. Three Sets of Parents: Things and Happiness Emerge Late October 5. Identity, Part 1: A Dance Party, Demi Lovato, and the Internal Quest Late October 6. Transformation in Youth Ministry Late March 7. Identity, Part 2: Romance, Recognition, and Resentment Late October 8. Happiness, Part 1: Powerball, Endgames, and Sheryl Crow versus Taylor Swift From Winter to Spring Break 9. When Goods Become the Good Late March 10. Happiness, Part 2: Holiness, Virtue, and Luther's Freak-Out The End of Spring Break 11. Joy and the Custodian: What Youth Ministry Is For Late March 12. Borne Burdens: Youth Ministry and Stories of Joy Late March 13. Open Takes and Closed Spins: Youth Ministry and Transcendence Late March 14. An Identity Event: How Youth Ministry Affects Identity Mid-April 15. Holding Vigil: Youth Ministry and Cruciform Practices May Conclusion: Friendship and DQ May

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Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has written extensively about youth ministry. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker, The Children of Divorce, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry, and Relationships Unfiltered, and the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.

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