The Christian Century featured an excerpt from Andrew Root’s Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker.
Bonhoeffer reminds us that we must form our ministries around explorations of the living Christ. He also points us to the practical dispositions of doing youth ministry. He encourages us to do ministry through stories of our own faith life and to prayerfully seek composure, a spirit of calm. A calm disposition, coupled with narration, creates fertile ground for a depth of relationship (what Bonhoeffer called Stellvertretung or “place-sharing”) that mediates the presence of the living Christ..
Also, Root discussed Bonhoeffer and youth ministry in this month’s Christianity Today cover story, and Mark Husbands reviewed Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker for the Hope College blog.
Reformed Catholicity, by Michael Allen and Scott Swain, was reviewed by Gavin Ortlund at The Gospel Coalition, and by Derek Rishmawy at Reformedish.
At Don’t Stop Believing, Mike Wittmer reviewed J. Richard Middleton’s A New Heaven and a New Earth.
Steve Bishop , at An Accidental Blog, also reviewed A New Heaven and a New Earth.
At Reformation 21, Jon Coutts reviewed James Skillen’s The Good of Politics.
D. A. Carson’s Praying With Paul was reviewed at Treasuring Christ.
Nijay Gupta, at Crux Sola, reviewed Galatians and Christian Theology, edited by Mark Elliott, Scott Hafemann, N. T. Wright, and John Frederick.
Caleb Spindler praised Jonathan Pennington’s Reading the Gospels Wisely.
The Etownian reported on a lecture by Mark Nation on key themes in Bonhoeffer the Assassin?
