Generation X
Baby Busters: The Disillusioned Generation
George Barna. (Chicago: Northfield Publishing, 1994)
Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X
Tom Beaudoin. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998)
Inside the Soul of a New Generation: Insights and Strategies for Reaching Busters.
Tim Celek and Dieter Zander (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996)
Jesus for a New Generation: Putting the Gospel in the Language of Xers
Kevin Graham Ford. (Downers Grove, IL, InterVarsity Press, 1995)
13th Generation: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Neil Howe and Bill Strauss. (New York: Vintage Books, 1993)
Gathering the Next Generation: Essays on the Formation and Ministry of GenX Priests. Nathan Humphrey, ed.. (Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing, 2000)
The Gospel According to Generation X: The Culture of Adolescent Faith.
David K. Lewis and Carley H. Dodd and Darryl L. Tippens. (Abilene: Abilene Christian University Press, 1995)
The Critical Years: The Young Adult Search for a Faith to Live By
Sharon Parks. (New York, Harper & Row, 1986)
What Next?: Connecting your Ministry with the Generation formerly known as X.
Andrea Lee Schieber and Ann Terman Olson, ed.. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1999)
Millennial Generation
Millennials Go To College: Strategies for a New Generation on Campus: Recruiting and Admissions, Campus Life, and the Classroom
Neil Howe and William Strauss (LifeCourse.com/college)
College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What To Do About It
Richard Kadison, M.D. and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2004)
Freshman: The College Student’s Guide to Developing Wisdom
Mark Matlock. (Think, 2005)
Making God Real for a New Generation: Ministry With Millennials Born From 1982 to 1999.
Craig Kennet Miller and MaryJane Pierce Norton. (Nashville, Discipleship Resources, 2003)
Generational Theory
Three Generations: Riding the Waves of Change in Your Church.
Gary L. McIntosh. (Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1995, second printing 1999)
Faith of My Fathers: Conversations with Three Generations of Pastors about Church, Ministry, and Culture
Chris Seay. (Zondervan, 2005)
Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069.
William Strauss and Neil Howe. (New York: Quill, 1990)
General Young Adult Ministry
The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments
William Bridges. Perseus Publishing, 2001)
Twenty Someone: Finding Yourself in a Decade of Transition
Craig Dunahm and Doug Serven. (WaterBrook Press, 1st Edition, 2003)
Developing Faith in Young Adults: Effective Ministry with 18-35 Year Olds
Robert T. Gribbon. (New York, Alban Institute, 1990, reprint 1992 & 1993)
Young Adult Ministry
Terry Hershey. (Group Publishing, 1986)
In Search of Authentic Faith: How Emerging Generations are Transforming the Church
Steve Rabey. (Colorado Springs, Waterbrook Press, 2001)
Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century World
Leonard Sweet. (Nashville, Broadman & Holman, 2000)
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
Alexandra Robbins & Abby Wilner. (Penguin Putnam, 2001)
Developmental Theory
Identity and the Life Cycle
Erik Erikson. (W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition 1994)
Identity: Youth and Crisis
Erik Erikson. (W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition 1994)
Faith
Revolution
George Barna
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
Rob Bell (Zondervan, 2005)
A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am A Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN
Brian D. McLaren (Zondervan, 2004)
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Donald Miller. (Nelson Books, 2003)
A New Kind of Christian
Devotion/Prayer
Listening To Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner. (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
Turn Into the Wind: Prayers and Reflections by College Students
Shirley Kelter, ed. (Winona, MN, Saint Mary’s Press, 1999)
With Heart and Mind and Soul: A Guide to Prayer for College Students and Young Adults
Helen R. Neinast and Thomas C. Ettinger. (Nashville, Upper Room Books, 1994)
365 Meditations for Young Adults
Sally D. Sharpe, ed. (Nashville, Dimensions for Living, 2002)
Secrets of a Good Life as Told By Saints and Sinners
Compiled and Introduced by Kathleen Stephens (Nashville, Upper Room Books, 2005)
Soul Tending: Life Forming Practices for Older Youth and Young Adults
Various Authors, Foreward by Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster. (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2002)
Vocation/Calling
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Parker Palmer. (Jossey-Bass, 1999)
Awakened to A Calling: Reflections on the Vocation of Ministry
Ann M. Svennungsen and Melissa Wiginton, eds. (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2005)
Mentoring
Faith Matters: Faith-Mentoring in the Faith Community
Sondra Higgins Matthaei. (Valley Forge, PA, Trinity Press, 1996)
Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith.
Sharon Daloz Parks. (Jossey-Bass, 2000)
Novels
The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary (fiction)
Chloe Breyer. (New York, Basic Books, 2000)
Letters to A Young Doubter
William Sloan Coffin. (Louisville, Westminster John Knox Press, 2005)
My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion
Patton Dodd. (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2005)
A New Kind Of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on A Spiritual Journey
Brian D. McLaren. (Jossey-Bass, 1st Edition, 2001)
Compelled to Write to You: Letters on Faith, Love, Service and Life
Christopher de Vinck and Elizabeth M. Mosbo VerHage. (Nashville, Upper Room Books, 2001)
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
Mike Yankoski. (Multnomah, 2005).
Worship
Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations
Dan Kimball. (Grand Rapids, Emergent YS, 2004)
The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations
Dan Kimball. (Grand Rapids, Emergent YS, 2003)
A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church
Leonard Sweet, Brian D. McLaren, Jerry Haselmayer. (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 2003)
The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives
Leonard Sweet, general ed. (Grand Rapids, Emergent YS, 2003)
The Out of Bounds Church? Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change
Steve Taylor. (Zondervan, Emergent YS, 2005)
Liturgy and Learning Through the Life Cycle.
John H. Westerhoff, III and William H. Willimon. (New York: Seabury Press, 1980)
Worship in the Age of Technology
Racial Ethnic/Diversity
Young Lions
Songs of Imani
The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb
Eric Law
Dancing with Disabilities
Theology
Later Writings of Leslie Newbegen
Leslie Newbegen
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
NT Wright. (Downers Grove, IL, InterVarsity Press, 1999)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Church Life
Discerning God’s Will Together: A Spiritual Practice for the Church.
Danny E. Morris and Charles M. Olsen. (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1997)
Miscellaneous
Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation – “Heady”
AKM Adam, ed.. (Saint Louis, Chalice Press, 2000)
Leaving Home: Family Living in Pastoral Perspective
Herbert Anderson and Kenneth Mitchell. (Westminster John Knox Press, 1993)
The Cultural Creative: How 50 Million People Are Changing The World
Paul H Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson. (Three Rivers Press, 2001)
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (revised)
Margaret Wheatley. (Berrett-Koehler, 1st edition, 2001)
