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If you're looking a few good reads regarding student ministry, here's a whole collection of books used by educators and youth ministers alike to help train, understand and inspire youth leaders like us.

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A Must-Read

If you want to stay up-to-date on youth culture, there is a recently released book (9/7/06) called Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement that is getting rave reviews. It, yet again, talks about the shifts that are happening in youth culture but equally declares that this "Disciple Generation" is powerful and has a significant potential to influence todays culture. Here's a quick teaser for you...

There’s a new youth movement afoot in this country. It’s a counterculture fusion of politics and pop, and it’s taking over a high school near you. Like the waves that came before it, it’s got passion, music, and anti-authority posturing, but more than anything else, this one has God. So what does it mean when today’s youth counterculture has a mindset more akin to Jerry Falwell’s than Abbie Hoffman’s? Read more here