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Bibliography
These are just a few recommendation of some of the wonderful books out there. Many books belong in many different categories, but I didn't repeat books so you may have to look at many categories. All links go to Goodreads.com
For Spiritual Development
Sleeping with Bread:
Holding What Gives You Life
- By Dennis Linn, Sheila Fabricant Linn & Matthew Linn.
Practicing the Sacred Art of Listening: A Guide to Enrich Your Relationship and Kindle Your Spiritual Life
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by Kay Lindahl
Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God
- by Ellen Morris Prewitt
Praying with the Body: Bringing the Psalms to Life
- by Roy DeLeon, OblSB
Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God
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by Sybil MacBeth
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Praying in Color's corresponding website
Worship Resources
Changes: Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage
- by the Church Pension Fund
Cloth for the Cradle:
Worship resources and readings for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
- by Iona Community and Wild Goose Worship Group
Children's Books
Children of God Storybook Bible
- by Desmond Tutu
The Brick Bible:
A New Spin on the Old Testament
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by Brendan Powell Smith
Jesus, The Word: by Mark
Francisco Bozzuit-Jones and Shelly Hehenberger
God's Dream
- by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams and LeUyen Pham
The Story of King Jesus
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Ben Irwin, Nick Lee (Illustrations)
Youth and Young Adult Ministries
Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation
- by Andrew Root
Practicing Passion: Youth and the Quest for a Passionate Church
- by Kenda Creasy Dean
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
- by Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton
The Spirit and Culture of Youth Ministry: Leading Congregations toward Exemplary Youth Ministry
- by John Roberto et. al.
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Exemplary Youth Ministry's corresponding website
Youth Culture
All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis
- by David Elkind
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
- by Mary Pipher
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