Youth Ministry Books:
A New Kind of Youth Ministry- Chris Folmsbee
Core Realities of Youth Ministry- Mike Yaconelli
Postmodern Youth Ministry- Tony Jones
Relationships Unfiltered- Andrew Root
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry-Andrew Root
Presence-Centered Youth Ministry- Mike King
Contemplative Youth Ministry- Mark Yaconelli
Sustainable Youth Ministry- Mark Devries
Growing Souls: Experiments in Contemplative Youth Ministry- Mark Yaconelli
Youth Ministry 3.0- Marko (Mark Oestricher)
Emergent Books:
The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier- Tony Jones
A Christianity Worth Believing- Doug Pagitt
A New Kind of Christian- Brian McLaren
An Emergent Manifesto of Hope- Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones
Soul Graffiti: Making Life in the Way of Jesus- Mark Scandrette
Velvit Elvis- Rob Bell
A Generous Orthodoxy- Brian McLaren
The Jesus Creed- Scot McKnight
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why- Phyllis Tickle
Emerging Church Ministry Books:
Emerging Churches- Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger
Adventures in the Missing the Point- Tony Campolo and Brian McLaren
Jesus Wants to Save Christians- Rob Bell
The Emerging Church- Dan Kimbal
The Like Jesus but not the Church- Dan Kimball
Preaching Re-Imagined- Doug Pagitt
Church Re-Imagined- Doug Pagitt
Organic Church- Neil Cole
Simple Church- Thomas Rainer
UnChristian-David Kinnaman
Emerging Worship- Dan Kimball
Everything Must Change- Brian McLaren
Postmodernism Books:
Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism?- James K. A. Smith
A Primer on Postmodernism- Stanley J. Grenz
How (not) to Speak of God- Peter Rollins
Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible- A.K.M. Adam (editor)
Eyes that See, Ears that Heart: Perceiving Jesus in a Postmodern Context- James P. Danaher
Postmodern Theology: Christian Faith in a Pluralist World- Frederic Burnham
Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context- Stanley Grenz
Generating Hope: A Strategy for Reaching the Postmodern Generation- Jimmy Long
Postmodern Pilgrims- Leonard Sweet
Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World- Robert E. Webber
I share many of your views about youth ministry today. Your blog about youth ministry in the north featured many of the same concerns and challenges that I have encountered in South Florida. Maybe it’s the affluence that both of our areas share that might have something to do with it.
I have yet to find a book that made me feel like they were talking to me so I wrote my own. Drop me a line and I’ll send you a copy.
Jay Tucker
http://www.betteryouthministry.com
Good book list – definitely agree with you!