Nobody’s Perfect: Redefining Sin and Mistakes in Adolescent Christian Education is a gift to the field of youth ministry. Thoughtful, careful, and deeply practical, this book is essential reading for anyone who works with young people in the church—especially those who care about cultivating spaces of honesty, trust, and genuine formation rather than fear or moral performance. This book is full of prophetic and pastoral wisdom. The authors clearly understand youth not as problems to be fixed or moral projects to be managed, but as people. Care is taken throughout the book to balance wisdom gleaned from developmental theories with a conceptual centralization of young people's lived experience. Though at times I found myself somewhat perplexed by an implicit hermeneutical capitulation to developmentalism, I was time and again relieved by the authors' pervasive and palpable concern for the real lives of young people, particularly those on the margins, and their relentless refusal...