"This is a much needed resource. It presents varied forthright, creative, usable, theologically supported and biblically informed practices for use in youth ministry to affirm the role of youth and empower their engagement." —Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, executive director, Youth Hope-Builders Academy and Connecting With Hope Innovation Hub, Young Adult Ministry Initiative, Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia
"This is the very best book on youth ministry I have ever read. Richly biblical, deeply formative, and beautifully written, it is also brilliantly educational and utterly practical. Absorb its wisdom and it will change your lives." —Craig Dykstra, former senior vice-president for religion at Lilly Endowment, Inc.; former professor of Christian education at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Duke Divinity School
"Deliberate, liberative, intentional, democratic, and gospel-informed youth ministry. Rarely do books on youth ministry provide such profoundly captivating and pragmatic guidance for youth ministry." —Patrick B. Reyes, senior director of learning design, Forum for Theological Exploration; author of The Purpose Gap
"Youth Ministry as Peace Education brings together Corrie's deep respect for young people and her commitment to what Paulo Freire called 'education as a practice of freedom.' A remarkable, practical, and readable volume." —Joyce Ann Mercer, Bushnell Professor of Divinity, Yale Divinity School
"Through all the years I've worked with youth, this is the book I've been missing. Corrie guides readers in the practical cultivation of ministry that holds the potential to form youth and transform communities in the shape of compassion, peace, and justice. I've never read anything like it." —Cody J. Sanders, American Baptist chaplain to Harvard University; author of A Brief Guide to Ministry with LGBTQIA Youth
"I cherish most the clearly outlined strategies to aid educators, ministers, and parents who seek to create spaces for hard, heartfelt conversations with youth." —Gregory C. Ellison II, associate professor of pastoral care and counseling, Candler School of Theology
"Corrie's Youth Ministry as Peace Education is a tour de force. She raises questions about the underlying assumptions many have about young people and reminds us to see youth in their rightful, prophetic, and peacebuilding roles. Corrie builds on years of peacebuilding justice work with youth and critical reflection on theology and culture to offer parents, pastors, and youth workers practical wisdom for a new vision of youth ministry that is hopeful and excited about the future with youth and young adults as engaged leaders in the struggles against violence and injustice." —Almeda M. Wright, associate professor of religious education, Yale Divinity School; author of The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans
"It is rare to encounter a book on youth ministry that doesn't position young people as a problem to be solved or a population to be saved. Corrie instead takes as her premise that young people are companions, citizens, and co-conspirators in working actively to establish God's shalom. Through Corrie's stories and examples, we capture a vision of how young people might be actively entrusted with the most important struggles, questions, and responsibilities of a life of faith." —Katherine Turpin, professor of practical theology and religious education, Iliff School of Theology; author of Nurturing Different Dreams: Youth Ministry Across Lines of Difference
