Fall '08 - CED214 Intro to Adolescent Culture and Ministry

Chbosky, Stephen, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 1999.

Mike King, Presence-centered Youth Ministry: Guiding Students into Spiritual Formation, 2006.

Walt Mueller, Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Bridging Teen Worldviews And Christian Truth, 2006.

Pete Ward, God at the Mall, 1997.

Fall '08 - REL382 Religion in America

3 required texts.

Albanese, Catherine, America: Religions and Religion. 4th edition. 2007. (4th edition only!)

Balmer, Randall, Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America, an Evangelical's Lament. New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2006.

Sweeny, Douglas. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005

Fall '08 - CED450 / Topics in CE: Theology of Postmodern Ministry

UPDATE:
Here are the 3 required texts as of August 5.

John Caputo, What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church. 2007.

Chris Folmsbee, A New Kind of Youth Ministry. 2006

Pete Rollins, The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief. 2008.

Recommended:
Robert Webber, Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World. 1999. We will read a couple chapters from this book at the beginning of the semester. It will be on reserve in the library so you don't need to buy it unless you want to.