UYWI’s Amazon Listmania

• Urban Ministry Top Picks
• Books on Leadership Development/ Life of the Leader
• Help, I’m a …..  Youth Worker!

Practical Youth Ministry

• Ten Rules of Youth Ministry and Why Oneighty Breaks Them All by Blaine Bartel
• All Kids Are Our Kids: What Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and Adolescents by Peter L. Benson
• At Risk: Bringing Hope to Hurting Teenagers by Scott Larson
• Battle Cry for a Generation by Ron Luce and Mike Guzzardo
• Black and White Styles of Youth Ministry by William Myers
• Caring For Sexually Abused Children by Timothy Kearney
• City Lights: Ministry Essentials for Reaching Urban Youth by Scott Larson and Karen Free
• Communicating God’s Word in a Complex World: God’s Truth or Hocus Pocus? by Daniel R. Shaw and Charles E. Van Engen
• Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus by Mark Yaconelli
• Creative Urban Youth Ministry: A Resource for Youth Workers by Glandion Carney
• Deep Ministry in a Shallow World by Chap Clark and Kara Powell
• Discipling The City: A Comprehensive Approach to Urban Mission by Roger Greenway
• Embracing Parents: How Your Congregation Can Strengthen Families by Jolene and Eugene Roehlkepartain
• Extreme Answers to Extreme Questions by Katie Gieser
• Families Where Grace is in Place by Jeff VanVonderen
• Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries
• Five Cries of Youth by Merton Strommen
• Generation Next by George Barna
• Grace-Based Youth Ministry by Chris Hill
• Growing Up With Divorce by Neil Kalter
• Handbook on Counseling Youth by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler
• Handling Your Hormones by Jim Burns
• Hear My Story: Understanding the Cries of Troubled Youth by Dean Borgman
• Identity and Inner City Youth by S.B. Heath and M.W. McLaughlin

• Intensive Care: Helping Teenagers in Crisis by Rich Van Pelt
• Introduction to Youth Ministry by John Dettoni
• Investing In African American Youth by Darrel Freedman
• Josh McDowell’s Youth Ministry Handbook by Sean McDowell and Ray Willey
• Keeping Your Teen in Touch with God by Robert Laurent
• Leading From The Lockers (Training Student Leaders) by John Maxwell
• Ministry with Youth in Crisis by Harley Atkinson
• No More Lone Rangers by David Chow
• On The Outside Lookin In by Cristina Rathbone
• Parents, Kids, and Sexual Integrity: Equipping Your Child by Donald M. Joy
• Peppermint-Filled Pinatas by Eric Bryant
• Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids by Peter L. Benson, Judy Galbraith, and Pamela Espeland
• Purpose Driven Youth Ministry by Doug Fields
• Raising Up Young Heroes by Efrem Smith
• Reaching Kids Most Youth Ministries Miss by Tim Milburn
• Reclaiming The Urban Family by Willie Richardson
• Student Leadership Manual for Youth Workers by Dennis McLuen & Chuck Wysong
• Teenage Wasteland by Donna Gaines
• The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert E. Coleman
• The Urban Christian: Effective Ministries In Today’s Urban World by Ray Bakke
• The Youth Builder by Jim Burns & Mide Devries
• Tough Problems, Real Solutions by Jim Burns
• Well Connected by Phill Butler
• When Kumbaya Is Not Enough by Dean Borgman
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Working With Black Youth by Charles Foster & Grant Shockley
• Youth Fundraisers: Raising Money That Counts by Lynn Strother Hinkle
• Youth Ministry In City Church by Eugene Roehlkenpartain
• Youth Ministry That Transforms by Strommen & Jones & Rahn

Social Justice

• Building a People of Power by Bob Linthicum
• Extreme Evil: Kids Killing Kids by Bob Larson
• Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times by Luis Rodriguez
• Reconciliation Blues by Ed Gilbreath
• Seek the Peace of the City by Eldin Villafane
• Social Justice and the City by Harvey David
• Submerge by John Hayes
• The Beloved Community by Charles Marsh
• The Spiritual Activist by Claudia Horowitz
• The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation by James H Cone

Spiritual and Personal Development

• All Grown Up & No Place to Go by David Elkin
• Ascent of a Leader by Thrall McNicol
• Authentic Christianity by John Stott
• In Name Only: Tackling the Problem of Nominal Christianity by Gibbs Eddie
• Jesus for a New Generation by Kevin Graham Ford
• Leading at a Higher Level by Ken Blanchard
• Leading with a Limp by Dan Allender
• Life After God by Douglas Coupland
• Living on Purpose by Christine and Tom Sine
• The Ministry of Nurture by Duffy Robbins
• Touch: The Power of Touch in Transforming by Pastor Rudy Rasmus

Community Development

• Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
• Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith
• Encounter God In the City by Randy White
• Plunge2Poverty: An Intensive Poverty Simulation Experience by Jimmy Dorrell & Janet Dorrell
• Theirs is the Kingdom by Robert Lupton
• Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks

Emerging Urban Church

• The Hip Hop Church by Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson
• Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities About Today’s Church That We Don’t Want to See by Jimmy Dorrell

Emerging Urban Culture

• Between God and Gangsta Rap by Michael Eric Dyson
• Black Looks: Race and Representation by Bell Hooks
• Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture by William Eric Perkins
• English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas by Coco Fusco
• Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality by Chuck D
• Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins
• Hip Hop America by Nelson George
• New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity by Mark Anthony Neal
• Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry
• Rap Music and Street Consciousness by Cheryl L. Keyes
• Sacred Music of the Secular City: From Blues to Rap by Jon Michael Spencer
• The Gospel Remix: Reaching the Hip Hop Generation by Ralph C. Watkins
• The H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop by Todd Boyd
• The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture by Bakari Kitwana
• The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music by Teresa Reed
• The Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop by Murray Forman
• Understanding Theology and Popular Culture by Gordon Lynch
• What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture by Mark Anthony Neal
• Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop by Bakari Kitwana
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu
• Young Black Rich and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture by Todd Boyd

Street Ministry

• Cities of Lonesome Fear: God Among The Gangs by Gordon McLean 
• Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson
• Monster by Walter Dean Meyers 

Theology

• Black Man’s Religion by Craig Keener
• Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone
• God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone
• If I Could Ask God One Question by Greg Johnson 
• Satanism: The Seduction of America’s Youth by Bob Larson
• Theological Themes of Youth Ministry by Williams Myers
• Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Tired of Trying to Measure Up by Jeff VanVonderen