Kara Powell interviews Shane Claiborne—author, speaker, and founder of The Simple Way justice-seeking community in Philadelphia. Shane’s interview appears in the upcoming book from Kara Powell and Chap Clark, Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around Them.
When faced with the question, “How do you minister to families?” many of us balk, stutter, or change the subject. While we care deeply about the families of our youth ministries, we cannot always articulate or strategically plan for the ways we care for, equip, and encourage them. This article will help put some language around three of the most common approaches to family ministry, in addition to giving you some tools you can use right now to assess your approach to families.
- Shane Claiborne Interview
- Disconnected book excerpt
- New theology of youth ministry
- Family Ministry
- Tale of Two Poverties
Whether you’ve spent a lot of time thinking about poverty or only barely entertained its implications for you and your students, this article offers deep insights for rethinking both the ways we view and teach about poverty.
Chap and Dee Clark recently co-authored Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World. This brief excerpt from Disconnected highlights the emerging reality of midadolescence, along with offering faith-building strategies that can help parents move kids toward a growing faith in the midst of the midadolescent reality.
What do we really think about the church, and does it make a difference in the way we do youth ministry? Kara Powell and Brad Griffin argue here that our ecclesiology matters immensely for youth workers, and make practical suggestions for working out a new theology of youth ministry for your church.
Kara Powell interviews Mark Oestreicher (Marko), President of Youth Specialties. Marko shares some startling insights from the world of adolescent brain research on an intensely practical level, particularly for anyone who works with junior highers!
Whether it’s deciding what music to listen to in the church van or which movies to see with students, youth workers are always wrangling with questions of culture. How we think theologically about culture has a huge impact on the way we answer the questions, but we rarely have time to contemplate the roots of our responses.
- Mark Oestreicher Interview
- New Twists for Girls
- Urban Social Justice Report
- Theology of Culture
- Rest for Urban Youth Workers
What is social justice, and how do I know if I’m doing it—or doing it well—in youth ministry? To help you evaluate your own ministry, we’re reporting here on a collaborative effort by FYI, World Vision, Community Solutions, Inc., and the Urban Youth Workers Institute to get at the difference between average justice work and deeper justice ministry. FREE DOWNLOADABLE ASSESSMENT TOOL.
