Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, The Congregation in a Secular Age, and The End of Youth Ministry? Root is also the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.

• Contents1. When the Church Becomes a Pub, and the Immanent Frame Our Map2. Brother-Trouble and Meeting the Exorcist's Son: The Beginning of Karl Barth3. A Funeral for a Church--A Funeral That Remakes a Church4. An Apple Tree and the Incoherence of "God Is God"5. The Church Can't Know How to Find God6. The Church Is Not the Star of Its Own Story7. Welcome to Crisis Mode8. Wedding Blunders and Brotherly Love9. Say Goodbye to Being and Give Me More Busyness10. A Shady Obituary and the Need to Wait11. Waiting Sucks but Resonance Is Life12. Waiting Is Living: The Church and Resonance13. When Mozart Goes Straight Into You and Through You14. Pietism and Its Discontents: A Dialectical Escape from Individualism and Religion15. A True Ghost Story and the Birth of Watchwords16. Getting Real with a Dialectical Demand17. Deepening the Dialectic: Avoiding Sledgehammering the CeilingIndex

Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, The Congregation in a Secular Age, and The End of Youth Ministry? Root is also the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.

• Contents1. When the Church Becomes a Pub, and the Immanent Frame Our Map2. Brother-Trouble and Meeting the Exorcist's Son: The Beginning of Karl Barth3. A Funeral for a Church--A Funeral That Remakes a Church4. An Apple Tree and the Incoherence of "God Is God"5. The Church Can't Know How to Find God6. The Church Is Not the Star of Its Own Story7. Welcome to Crisis Mode8. Wedding Blunders and Brotherly Love9. Say Goodbye to Being and Give Me More Busyness10. A Shady Obituary and the Need to Wait11. Waiting Sucks but Resonance Is Life12. Waiting Is Living: The Church and Resonance13. When Mozart Goes Straight Into You and Through You14. Pietism and Its Discontents: A Dialectical Escape from Individualism and Religion15. A True Ghost Story and the Birth of Watchwords16. Getting Real with a Dialectical Demand17. Deepening the Dialectic: Avoiding Sledgehammering the CeilingIndex

Andrew Root (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including Faith Formation in a Secular Age, The Pastor in a Secular Age, The Congregation in a Secular Age, and The End of Youth Ministry? Root is also the coauthor (with Kenda Creasy Dean) of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.

• Contents1. When the Church Becomes a Pub, and the Immanent Frame Our Map2. Brother-Trouble and Meeting the Exorcist's Son: The Beginning of Karl Barth3. A Funeral for a Church--A Funeral That Remakes a Church4. An Apple Tree and the Incoherence of "God Is God"5. The Church Can't Know How to Find God6. The Church Is Not the Star of Its Own Story7. Welcome to Crisis Mode8. Wedding Blunders and Brotherly Love9. Say Goodbye to Being and Give Me More Busyness10. A Shady Obituary and the Need to Wait11. Waiting Sucks but Resonance Is Life12. Waiting Is Living: The Church and Resonance13. When Mozart Goes Straight Into You and Through You14. Pietism and Its Discontents: A Dialectical Escape from Individualism and Religion15. A True Ghost Story and the Birth of Watchwords16. Getting Real with a Dialectical Demand17. Deepening the Dialectic: Avoiding Sledgehammering the CeilingIndex