Updated 4/12/12

I’m the kind of guy who’s always looking for ways to better myself, to sharpen my mind and better prepare my heart for the life and work that God has called me to… I love to learn and believe that ALL leaders should be life-long learners.

It’s been a little more than 6 years since I graduated from George Fox Evangelical Seminary with a D.Min. in Leadership and Spiritual Formation — an incredible program for what we do in college ministry!  While the years I was pursuing this degree – and working on my dissertation – were incredibly full and challenging years personally, they were also very rich and fruitful years professionally.

I found, during these years, that everything I was reading about, researching, discussing – LEARNING – I could take immediately into my ministry context and attempt to implement it.

It was very easy to discern which authors, and professors, had ‘tested’ their theories in the field of ministry – and which had not.

But over the past several years, since I’ve finished work on my dissertation, I’ve struggled to be as equally challenged in my ongoing learning.

That, in part, is what Faith ON Campus is about.

I enjoy thinking and writing on this blog, and others like it, as a way to engage – with others – about the work of college ministry — and I hope to find more conversation partners as time goes on.

But I’m finding myself wondering:

What are some of the NON-college ministry-specific blogs, websites, magazine, books – conversations – that I [we] as college ministers need to be interacting with?

While it’s good, and important, to be fully aware of the conversations happening within our field, I believe it’s JUST AS IMPORTANT to be reading and thinking about conversations happening outside of our field that can better inform and shape our work within our field.

I also recognize that there are only so many hours in the day.

SO,

What are the resources you recommend?

Who are some of the thinkers that you encounter that – although not working in the field of college ministry – have great potential to shape the work that we do?

Are there conferences – or other professional development opportunities – that you would recommend for those of us involved in college ministry that we might not initially think of?

I’d love to hear from!  Thanks for sharing what you know.