If you care anything about youth ministry, and find anything about literature intriguing in the slightest, I have to recommend Sarah Arthur's The God-Hungry Imagination. She looks at the essential connections among God, story, and youth ministry. It's something that has been so fragmented inside of me, and she brings them all together so beautifully. I feel like my personal theology of youth ministry is being more and more defined with every page. Very few of the ideas shock me. I find myself going, "Yes!" pretty often. It just seems to be the kind of thing that has already shaped much of my ministry, but now I have very specific details and illustrations of what it really is and why it works. Not to mention it brings together my two educational endeavors. 

The best part is, I actually am reading it for class! I get to write a paper on it. And that paper should help me further define my theology of youth ministry and my personal theology as a whole. Amazing. That's all for now. I'm sure there will be more to come.