InterVarsity, 2005, 229 pp., $17.00,
www.ivpress.com
If you don’t regularly ingest material translating youth culture or look at the author’s Web site, CPYU (www.cpyu.com), add Engaging to your “Poor Youth Worker’s Bible College” bookshelf; it’s packed. Mueller admits there isn’t a lot new here about pop or youth culture. The chapter on postmodernism is a succinct history and sociology lesson that makes application of the rest of the book more insistent. In his sober, clarifying way, Mueller reminds us why getting it right with Millennials is essential while giving us good questions to ask ourselves and helping us “struggle with the proper relationship between our faith and culture.” Actual ideas for ministry are reserved for the final two chapters — standard fare, but coming from Mueller, a high standard.
