Kenda Creasy Dean

Biography

Kenda Creasy Dean wrote Practicing Passion, and co-wrote The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry and Delighted with others.

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The Promise of Social Enterprise

Work, Money & Leadership

“I’ve waited for years for this book—and Mark Sampson has delivered with gusto. The Promise of Social Enterprise is a candid, incisive, and impressively clear theological framework for social enterprise’s potential as a humanizing force. Sampson puts the ‘social’ back into social enterprise as a way to combat the ethical problems of marketization on the one hand and charity on the other. . . . My students will be starting with this book.”

We Aren't Broke

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This book packs a wallop—it could not be timelier or more important for congregations today. Elsdon calls churches to reckon with the impact of their finances—not just whether they can make bank—and turns impact investing into something mighty close to a spiritual practice. Given the tectonic shifts in giving and the global hand-wringing over the future of the church, We Aren’t Broke isn’t a moment too soon.”

Worship with Teenagers

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Wrestling with Rest

Children & Youth

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens

Children & Youth

“Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens is ambitious, winsome, sprawling, and convicting--easily establishing Wesley Ellis as a bracing new voice in practical theology. But it is also a love letter to every pastor who has loved a teenager who didn't fit the mold. Challenging youth ministry's exhausting reliance on the "developmental" paradigm of theorists like Erik Erikson, Ellis shows the harm that this paradigm inflicts, theologically and practically, on young people who don't follow Erikson's developmental script. Ellis writes with refreshing clarity and concreteness, with bursts of disarmingly personal storytelling. Reading this book made me rethink my own ministry: I wish I'd spent less time investing in youth's potential and more time embracing their messy humanity, confident that God is already at work in their lives (even without me). Can we refocus youth ministry in this way? It's a tall order--but Ellis makes me want to try.”