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Welcome to episode ninety-three of New Creation Conversations. It is fun for me to bring you a third conversation with one of my favorite authors and scholars, Dr. Andrew Root. Andy is Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. Andy has written several books on ministry and spiritual formation. I've had him on the podcast twice to talk about his incredible series on ministry and formation in the secular age.Our conversation today centers on his most recent book in that series When the Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation (published by Brazos Press and co-authored with Blair Bertrand). For those of you who are unfamiliar with the secular series, you will love the book because it is a wonderful summary of the key insights of the entire series. For those of you who have read all or parts of the series, you will love this book because it not only summarizes the series but also gives some very practical responses to the work Andy has done in the other books. It also is a great book for you to give to those friends you've tried to describe the series to, but never could find quite the right words. I am a big fan of Andy's work and love getting to talk with him about it. And I love that I have this format to share the conversation with you.
Welcome to episode seventy of New Creation Conversations. I'm delighted to get to share a second conversation with Dr. Andrew Root. Andy is Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary. Andy is an alum of Bethel College in Minnesota. He has both an MDiv and ThM degrees from Fuller Seminary and a PhD from Princeton Seminary. He's written several books on youth ministry, spiritual formation, and even on the grace of dogs.Our conversation centers on his most recent book Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age (from Baker Academic). This latest book is the fourth in a series of six books Andy is writing on ministry in a secular age. I read quite a bit and so I rarely go back and read books twice. I have found Andy's series so significant that I have read and the re-read each of the first four books in this series. It's hard for me to pick, but I think this most recent book is my favorite in the series so far. In its pages Charles Taylor intersects with Karl Barth and both speak to the current challenges of ministry. Andy is in high demand these days and is on the road often. I feel privileged that he made the space a second time to have a conversation with me about his fascinating and significant work. I love this conversation. It's a little longer than normal, but I had so many things I wanted to talk about, and I still didn't get to all my questions. I think you will like this conversation a lot also.
Andrew Root, professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, talks about what ministry, worship, and encountering transcendence looks like in contemporary secular contexts. For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio.
April 27, 2019 | The Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry Extended Seminar: Ministry in a Secular Age, Continued Speaker: Dr. Andrew Root, Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota Due to a recording issue and copyrighted materials, portions of this extended seminar are unavailable for publication.
April 25, 2019 | The Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry Extended Seminar: Ministry in a Secular Age Speaker: Dr. Andrew Root, Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota Due to a recording issue and copyrighted materials, portions of this extended seminar are unavailable for publication.
Andrew Root, Associate Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, Faith Formation in a Secular Age. This is the first of three books engaging Charles Taylor's work.; church's obsession with Youthfulness Andrew and Tripp talk about their mutual love for Charles Taylor, Andrew's work expanding it into a new way of understanding God's presence, ministry, and divine action, the origins of youth ministry in America, and the church's obsession with youthfulness. Andrew also explains the origins of the book, how Taylor's work offers a great way to interpret what young people are going through, explains what Taylor means by the Age of Authenticity, and the politics of recognition. Plus, they discuss Bonhoeffer and the youth movement, the church's desire for recognition by today's youth, secularism and the reduction of faith, the burden of belief, divine action, mystical experiences and church membership, and Andrew gives a little taste of what the second book in the series will be about... Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Andrew Root, Associate Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, is back on the podcast to talk about his new book, Faith Formation in a Secular Age. This is the first of three books engaging Charles Taylor’s work.; church’s obsession with Youthfulness Andrew and Tripp talk about their mutual love… Read more about Faith Formation in a Secular Age with Andrew Root
Andrew Root, Associate Professor and Carrie Olson Baalson Chair of Youth Ministry and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary asks the question, "With so much time and attention focused on the computer, TV, iPad an cell phone, how do young people experience spiritual life in a "hyper-real" world and how can we minister to them?"