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we youth workers do some pretty crazy things from time to time, right? call it “the lengths we’re willing to go to for teenagers” or “occupational risk” or just the collective risk-taking nature of our tribe, but man-alive, have i heard some stories. and, it was shockingly easy for me to pull together this list [...]
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yesterday, one of my youth ministry coaching program cohorts had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with dr. robert epstein for 90 minutes. epstein graciously welcomed us into his home, served us iced tea and cookies, and engaged with us is a pot-stirring exploration of ideas. for an academic with such polarizing (and, some would [...]
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i’m experiencing a handful of turns in my thinking about youth ministry these days. most of them are not even close to fully fleshed out. i often see them pop up when i’m doing a youth ministry seminar, saying something i’ve said before, and realizing i don’t fully agree with it anymore. this happened to [...]
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these past couple days, i was at a small gathering of youth workers in millersburg, ohio (not far from canton), called seismos. joel daniel harris organized this event last year, focusing on youth ministry 3.0, after ys canceled the “future of youth ministry summit” he had planned on attending. this year, he asked me to [...]
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last year, a bunch of youth workers in the midwest gathered for a dialogue around the ideas in youth ministry 3.0. i followed joel harris’s blogging about their conversations, and thought it was a very cool gathering — robust dialogue about youth ministry. here’s how joel describes the event: The goal of Seismos when it [...]
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Youth Ministry Coaching Program A yearlong 360 coaching cohort, focusing on whole-life development and youth ministry issues. Overview Critical thinking and theological reflection is extremely important for youth workers who don’t merely want to perpetuate the way things have been done in the past. But thinking and reflection are merely one portion (though a significant [...]
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great little essay on reproducible youth ministry models and youth ministry 3.0 on the small town youth pastor blog: Having a highly reproducible Youth ministry model = healthy youth ministry. Right? I argue that the best youth ministry models are the models that aren’t reproducible. I think a youth ministry doesn’t have to subscribe to [...]
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clinton faupel of web-based radio, remedy.fm, did an interview with me a couple weeks ago about youth ministry 3.0. it’s available as a podcast on itunes, here. remedy.fm, btw, looks like a pretty cool resource for youth workers to know about. they stream music, and have a bunch of other shows, both live and in [...]
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sorry (a little) for the quantity of these this week; but i’m a bit behind in posting them… i’ve been blown away by the number of blog reviews youth ministry 3.0 continues to receive. really, very humbled. but a few of them stand out. and this is one of them — written by Alaina Kleinbeck, [...]
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this one from David Mehrle, on his studentministry101 blog: I have just finished reading Marko’s book, Youth Ministry 3.0. I have to admit that I am a little confused as to exactly what I want to take away from this book. The first four chapters are not that impacting if you have been in Youth [...]
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