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February 14, 2013Student Culture, Trends & Issues

Are Long-Distance Relationships Better???

With 7 out of every 10 students claiming to have been in a long-distance relationship at some point, they are probably something we should know more about.

Long-distance relationships are not new, but advances in technology have made staying connected to high school sweethearts — or significant others from a previous school — a lot easier.

Yet, what do we really know about long-distance relationships???

And how do we assist students when we typically only get to see one side of the relationship.

February 11, 2013Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

A Few Things I Want You to Know Before the Release of Shaping Their Future on March 11th

Friends! I find it hard to believe my first book Shaping Their Future: Mentoring Students Through Their Formative College Years will release one month from today — on March 11th!!

It just doesn’t seem real to me. But my publisher assures me this is really happening.

In preparation for its release, I’ve made a few changes to the blog that I’d like to tell you about.

February 5, 2013Student Culture, Trends & Issues

The Problem of Future

The problem of future is simple — it’s not now.

And today’s student has a hard time grasping much that is “yet to come.” It’s not that they’re dumb — in fact we know that quite the opposite is true of them. But with so much going on in this very moment, it’s hard to think much beyond it.

They understand the here and the now — because they’ve grown up in an “instant” culture.

About a year ago I wrote a post entitled: Overcoming a Culture of Instant Gratification. In it I talk about needing to introduce students the discipline of slow. Why slow? Because in slow — and only in the slow of life — can some things truly grow and take shape in the ways that they need to.

February 4, 2013Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

Announcing the 3rd Annual Sex & the Soul Blogathon | Feb. 26-28

Preparation for the next blogathon is now underway!

As you very well know, today’s college students are more wounded than ever. They’ve been exposed to, or personally experienced, a lot of pain and hurt in relation to sex, issues of sexuality, and their intersection with the Christian faith.

And what they need most are women and men who are willing to “get dirty” with them in order to understand the depths of their hurts.

They need someone like you and like me to come alongside them — suspending judgment — and journey with them towards healing, reconciliation, and redemption.

The 3rd Annual Sex & the Soul Blogathon…

January 28, 2013Big Ideas & 'Best Of'

Join the Launch Team for my Forthcoming Book: Shaping Their Future

Faith ON Campus friends — I NEED YOUR HELP!

I’m looking for approximately 20 individuals to help me launch my forthcoming book — Shaping Their Future: Mentoring Students Through Their Formative College Years!

January 25, 2013Uncategorized

A Look at the Modern College Student

It’s not your parent’s college anymore.

With technology, the landscape of college education has done a complete turnaround. Gone are the days of notebooks, printed syllabi, and textbooks.

Now it’s iPads, smartphones, and ebooks.

Here’s a look at the modern college student and how they fare technologically on the university campus.

January 24, 2013Academics & Vocation

You can’T Do It All

You can’t do it all. Right?!

If you’re reading this, than you’ve probably already figured this out for yourself — to some degree — because the majority of you (my faithful readers) work with college students and have gone through the process of vocational discernment in order to end up doing what you’re doing right now.

But this is not the case for the vast majority of students we serve.

They don’t know they can’t do it all.

In fact, most of them believe that they CAN do ANYTHING they want.

January 22, 2013Student Culture, Trends & Issues

The Voices They Hear

Parents play a powerful role in the development of their children.

Seems obvious to say, yet I think we can tend to forget this truth when we work with students on college campuses — primarily because we don’t see parents, just students.

Sure, from time to time our students might bring their parents up in conversation. But it can be all to easy to forget that the ways in which our students think, believe, and live are without doubt a product of the ways and environments in which they were raised.

It’s true for all of our students — those who are thriving and those who are not.

January 18, 2013Spiritual Formation

Question Everything

I’m excited to share with you a great resource that addresses one of the most significant issues facing the Church today — biblical illiteracy.

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. Most of us have multiple copies on our bookshelf. We have audio Bibles on our iPods, and we can even read and listen to the Bible on our mobile phones for free.

Still, according to the Center for Bible Engagement, 66 percent of U.S. Christians rarely or never read their Bible.

Campus Minister, and author of Question Everything: A Fresh Way to Read the Best-Selling Book of All Time, Tyler Ellis has crafted this resource with intention of helping people — young and old — to explore the Bible, better understand the Bible, and more fully live out the truths of the Bible in their everyday living.