Dr. Jason Lief '96

Education:
Ph.D., Luther Seminary
M.A., Wheaton College Graduate School
B.A., Northwestern College

712-707-7027
jason.lief@nwciowa.edu

Dr. Jason Lief teaches courses in Christian education and youth ministry. A Northwestern College graduate, he served as the chaplain for Pella (Iowa) Christian High School while earning a master's degree in theology from Wheaton College Graduate School. He also completed a doctorate in practical theology from Luther Seminary. He previously taught theology and youth ministry at Dordt College for 10 years. Dr. Lief is the author of Poetic Youth Ministry: Loving Young People by Learning to Let Them Go and Christianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred Within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred.

+Publications and presentationsChristianity and Heavy Metal as Impure Sacred Within the Secular West: Transgressing the Sacred. Lexington Books. 2017 Poetic Youth Ministry: Loving Young People by Learning to Let them Go. Cascade Books. 2015 "Eschatology, Creation, and Practical Reason: A Reformational Interpretation of the Two Kingdoms Perspective." Kingdoms Apart: Engaging the Two Kingdom's Perspective. (P&R Press, October 2012) "Some Kind of Monstrosity: What Youth Ministry can Learn from Heavy Metal" Journal of Youth and Theology (Spring 2014) "Challenging the Objectivist Paradigm: Teaching Biblical Theology with J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Guillermo del Toro" Teaching Theology and Religion (October 2009) "Cultivating a 'Religionless' Social Imaginary: Youth Ministry in a Secular Age,' International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry Conference London, Englandm January, 2015

+Professional experienceAssociate Professor of Theology and Youth Ministry, Dordt College High School Chaplain, Pella Christian High School, Pella, IA

+MembershipsAssociation of Youth Ministry Educators International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry American Academy of Religion