Soul Shaper

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If you're unprepared for a book that makes faith come alive in practice, that makes past come alive in the present-and offers these gifts only if you're willing to spend significant time learning about the church's powerful, active spiritual heritage (and your place in it), then put this book down now.Still with us? Good! Because we really don't want you to miss this book.Soul Shaper is hands-down the most comprehensive primer on the study and use of spiritual and contemplative practices for the benefit of your teenagers-and especially your own soul.Inside, author Tony Jones gives wings to his critically acclaimed debut, Postmodern Youth Ministry, by lucidly explaining how you can put postmodern ideas to work by learning powerful disciplines such as-Sacred ReadingThe Jesus PrayerThe Ignatian ExamenThe Daily OfficeStations of the CrossSabbathSilence and SolitudeCentering PrayerSpiritual DirectionThe LabyrinthPilgrimageService...and eventually implement them into the life of your youth

Author Tony Jones took a sabbatical from April through June of 2001 to study, reflect, and write about The Emerging Revolution: Spiritual Practices in Youth Ministry. It9s intended as a follow-up to his (primarily theoretical) book, Postmodern Youth Ministry. He researched the implementation of spiritual exercises in the United States and Great Britain. Research was gathered by visiting innovative Britain youth workers and the Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project at San Francisco Theological Seminary, attending the Princeton Youth Ministry Forum, and Sabbath: A Spiritual Retreat for Youth Workers. The outline is constructed as follows: New Paradigms in Youth Ministry What is Spirituality? How Do You Practice it? Part I: Via Contemplativa: Contemplative Approaches to Spirituality Sacred Reading Centering Prayer Listening Prayer Meditation The Jesus Prayer The Ignatian Examen Silence Icons Spiritual Direction Part II: Via Activa: Physicalist Approaches to Spirituality The Labyrinth Stations of the Cross Pilgrimages Fasting Journaling Crossing Yourself, Kneeling and other personal forms Sabbath Epilogue: Developing a Rule of Life

Tony Jones