[Oe List ...] Churchmanship for youth

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I sent the query about churchmanship materials for youth on to my D.Min. 
list, and got the following reply.  Hope it helps.  Jann McGuire

Jann,


I was in youth ministry a good while.  A lot of stuff was a total 

embarrassment, as you say.  I don't know what denomination  etc your 

colleague is from, but Kenda Creasy Dean, a Princeton seminary professor 

had a marvellous book called "The God Bearing Life."  It is excellent, 

and includes (I love this) the observation that the problem for youth 

today is not lawlessness, but awelessness.  Something I found myself 

doing was ignoring a lot of the published crap, and just going to the 

poets like Rilke and Mary Oliver.  Anne Lamotte is excellent in her 

groundedness, too.  The tide may be turning on far-right theology, who 

knows, there may be some better stuff out there by now.  If I think of 

any others I'll let you know.

Peace,

Matt Henry

Jann,

If you can define "Churchmanship," I'll look into that...

Sounds like something denominational.

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