DJing and the Art of Pastoral Care A Different Spin on the Role of the Pastor, Part 2
What do the Hip Hop DJ and the youth pastor have in common? In Part 2 of this series, Kimberly offers insights from DJs to improve your teaching.
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Hip Hop and the Art of Pastoral Care A Different Spin on the Role of the Youth Pastor, Part 1
Surprising insights from DJ school into the vocation and role of youth pastors.
Becoming French Incarnational Youth Ministry in a Post-Christian Scenario
Can a Texan become French? Time to reconsider what we mean by “incarnational” youth ministry.
Moving Away from the Kid Table A Bigger Vision of Church
What’s so bad about the kid table? Kara explores a theology of church and youth ministry that might challenge your assumptions.
The Soul of Hip Hop Part 1 Toward A Missiological Gospel of A Culture
FYI’s Hip Hop scholar takes us a step toward understanding the core theological beliefs that weave through Hip Hop music and culture.
The Attack of the Zombies Why Community and Belonging are Hard to Construct
Note: This article is an adaptation of chapter three of The Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church
Preface: In conversations …
Going Green God’s Way Implications for Your Youth Ministry
Whether you’ve thought a lot, a little, or not really at all about what environmental concerns have to do with your youth ministry, Kris Fernhout makes a strong case for why we should all join God in caring about our–and our students’–impact on the world around us.
Why Ecclesiology? Imagining a New Theology of Youth Ministry for the Church
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.
A Theology of Culture for Your Ministry Is “The World” Friend, Foe, or Something Else?
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.
Re-Storying Conversion Listening to Students’ Accounts of Coming to Christ
“Conversion” and “evangelism” are words we often throw around in ministry without really stopping to consider what we mean and what we are attempting when we use them. Looking at two different approaches to conversion research might help us think more carefully about how we—and the students we serve—see the roles of both story and process in evangelism.