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Andrew Root
Andrew Root teaches youth and family ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is author of The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God (Baker Academic, 2019).
Youth ministry isn’t about fun
How one youth leader stopped being a chief counselor of fun and discovered something better.
Being a pastor within the secular frame means teaching people how to pray
Prayer is ministry, and ministry is prayer.
Young life together: Bonhoeffer as youth minister
From 1925 till the war broke out, it is nearly impossible to find a period when Bonhoeffer was not working with children or teens.
Wired together: How our brains are connected
Our brains are wired to allow us to read each other's minds, to feel each other's person.
Young adult realities
Christian Smith offers a way between the idea that young adults are the great hope of our nation and the idea that they are crazed idiots.
If the truth were told: Fox TV's 'Moment of Truth'
Earlier this year the Fox network, showing either the effects of the writers’ strike or the signs of social decay, offered a gem of televised exploitation—the kind that repulses you but you can’t h...
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