Dean Borgman

From Here to Maturity

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Important, challenging, and ecumenically friendly. . . . Bergler explains, step by step, how a church can stem the influence of juvenilization and promote spiritually mature Christians. A substantive discussion of spiritual formation.”

Helping Youth Grieve

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Bob Yoder is a grief specialist and this book recognizes a broad spectrum of losses that can lead some young people today into quiet yet desperate despair. Some parents and youth leaders are aware of our need for empathy and understand basically some of the classic stages of grief. Yoder is taking us deeper, allowing for the kind of healing that lasts because instead of applying good humanistic and spiritual bandages, it allows for healing from the inside out.”

Models and Methods for Youth and Young Adult Ministry

Children & Youth

“This book will provide today’s youth and young adult ministers with the high challenge of thinking through, not only their methodologies, but the theological thinking underlying their ministry. Any eager reader will profit from this book, but it will prove even more valuable when discussed in group or class situations.”

Pastoral Care to and Ministry with LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This is the most exhaustive and practical text I know of on one of our most current and controversial issues for our society and church. I think it should be in the library of every church and Christian organization. . . . Whatever your and your church’s perspective, I urge you to consider this challenging text.”

The Corridors of Strange Darkness

Christian Living

“We don't often get an inside look at the personal lives and struggles of pastors and Christian leaders. Neville's humility and vulnerability--as a very successful African-American pastor--provides an intriguing memoir; a ghetto coming-of-age story, a painful narrative of high achievement through barriers of systemic racism, and of survival through attacks from his church family. Even with the threat of blindness, it is a story of hope through suffering, of light in darkness.”

The Love That Is God

Christian Living

“What is love, and how does it work? The opening words of this relevant book’s introduction provide a key to how to be a Christian in our times: ‘Being a Christian is difficult. . . . difficult because love that goes all the way to the cross is difficult.’ Bauerschmidt describes obstacles to loving and to being a Christian in our current culture and churches. Read slowly and seriously, this book can change our personal lives, renew our churches, and hopefully have a profound effect on our digital and oppressive culture. This book could help heal our painful polarizations. Heartfelt love (from and for God, ourselves, and others) is what we can believe, and how we are to live. Bauerschmidt makes this exceptionally clear and comprehensible for all.”