First Things First
One of the mental images I took away from the Prepare conference last summer was this. How many times have we traveled […]
Category: The Campus Minister
Are Your Expectations Too High? Probably.
It’s a unique call that we have — as pastors — one that necessitates our interest, and even interjection, into some of […]
The Americanization of Congregation
Do you ever find yourself wondering: “how, exactly, did I end up here?” I know that I do. Sometimes the question arises […]
A Story Among Stories
I am a pastor of college students on a university campus.
It’s what God has called me to be — and if you’re reading this — then you have likely experienced a similar call.
And as pastors within this specific context, we often see ourselves as participants in the stories of our students — maybe even shapers of their stories — in some small way.
But if you’re anything like me it can be all too easy, at times, to overlook the ways in which students (and the campus community at large) play a role in the unfolding of our own story.
Local and Personally Present
What does it mean to understand our work as work that happens alongside God? How do we understand our workplace (the […]
Pastoring in North America
Today I come offering another excerpt from Eugene Peterson’s memoir. I know that most of us love the work that we have […]
A Pastoral Presence Online
Campus — today — is not what it use to be.
Technology continues to advance at a staggering pace and social media is making personal and mass-communication (of a new kind) very accessible to whoever wants it… and our students are well-versed in most of it.
About a year ago I had the chance to step away from campus and spend some time with campus ministers from across the U.S. (and Canada!), thinking about our shared work with college students. On our final morning together I was asked to lead our group in a conversation about what is happening here at Faith ON Campus, but I quickly found us expanding the conversations to explore what it meant (and means) to be a pastor in this digital age.
Practicing A New Way
Being a pastor, echoing the words of Eugene Peterson, if you are called to it, is the best life there is. […]
Better Together
The work we do, as pastors to college students, can often be incredibly rewarding and fulfilling. But it can also be […]
It Is Not Self-Care: Re-thinking Sabbath
I begin with a mea culpa. Often I have been labeled as one of those Type A personalities and only recently […]