Building the Beloved Community
This summer I attended a prayer vigil following the death of a 19-year-old Hmong man named Fong Lee who was killed by a police officer after supposedly fleeing from a drug deal. It had been a hot and deadly sum...
I Think About Sex (And You Should Too)
My strategy for surviving the elliptical machine is to program my MP3 player to play in the random mode. An eclectic mix of old and new CDs genres tempers the pain and makes things more interesting. For instanc...
Soul Cravings
Nelson Books, 2006, 287 pp., $19.99,www.thomasnelson.comErwin McManus’s Soul Cravings puts words to the “longings” that we often feel but cannot define. Having names for them — like int...
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? A Professor and a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 164 pp., $13.00,www.ivpress.comIs Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? provides a unique format that immerses readers in an unlikely e-mail correspondence between Preston Jones, a hi...
Jude: The How-To Youth Ministry Book
Jude is a one-chapter book we typically fly over on the way to Revelation — one that doesn’t get much attention. Yet Jude may be the primo how-to youth ministry book in the Bible. (And we all like ...
Blessed Are The Uncool
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 144 pp., $13.00,www.ivpress.comBlessed Are The Uncool is filled with lots of research and insight into the sociological reasons we all strive to be cool. This may be why teens or even ...
Fast Web College Gold: The Step-by-Step Guide to Paying for College
Collins, 2006, 297 pp,, $21.95,www.harpercollins.comUnless you are independently wealthy, you have probably asked the question, “How am I going to pay for college?” Here’s an essential resourc...
500 Questions & Answers from the Bible
Barbour Publishing, 2006, 240 pp., $9.97,www.barbourbooks.comDo you long for a little help when the kids ask hard questions? Are you the one who’s asking the hard questions? Fackler’s 500 Questions ...
Family Matters: Working with Parents to Make a Difference
The bottom line in youth ministry is not how many students you have participating in your youth group right now. It’s where those students will be in five or ten years.If they have integrated their life i...
Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 220 pp., $15.00,www.ivpress.comIn Encounter God in the City, Randy White passionately shares field-tested knowledge gained from his life and ministry in the Lowell neighborhood in Fres...