Below are some of my favorite links to books and other ministries that I have participated in or currently support. Each of these resources should provide you an inside perspective into my interests and the focus of This Way Ministries.

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More information about This Way's contemplative approach to youth ministry and its practices can be found in the following articles, all originally published in the Journal of Student Ministries.

"An Unsolved Theodicy: Finding God in the Toughest Times" by Brent Parker

"A Master of Divinity?: Practicing Holy Hindsight through the Awareness Examen" by Brent Parker

"Slowing Down" adapted from Growing Souls by Mark Yaconelli

*Growing Souls: Experiments in Contemplative Youth Ministry* by Mark Yaconelli
*Contemplative Youth Ministry* by Mark Yaconelli
*Presence Centered Youth Ministry* by Mike King
*Dangerous Wonder* by Michael Yaconelli
*In the Name of Jesus* by Henry Nouwen
*The Godbearing Life* by Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster
*Soul Tending* edited by Kenda Creasy Dean
*Way to Live: Christian Practices for Teens* edited by Dorothy Bass and Don Richter
*The Contemplative Pastor* by Eugene H. Peterson
*Life of the Beloved* by Henry Nouwen