Do you struggle to remember things?
I know I do. And remembering — especially things like names — seems to be an increasingly challenging task for me.
They go in one ear — and out the other. And with another school year right around the corner, I need help!
According to this infographic, the key is in the reviewing…
At the heart of Christian theology lies the idea that God is one. And if God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4), then the implications are astounding, with, perhaps, the largest being (to borrow a phrase from Richard Rohr) that “everything belongs”.
Many of us live with a bifurcated (or muti-furcated…just made up a word) world. College students are bombarded with this constantly. Whether it be sacred vs. secular, personal vs. public, on-line vs real-life, dualism abounds.
Artist David Arms uses the image of a hummingbird to symbolize humans, and I would dare to say that a freshman in college is like a hummingbird drinking a five hour energy drink.
Arms says we are like hummingbirds because we are in perpetual motion.
We never slow down!
To an eighteen-year old, we add that perpetual motion to the thrill of freedom in a whole new world, and suddenly the hummingbird is chugging that five hour energy in order to put motion in hyper drive.
Friendship is a diminishing of distance between people. from Life p. 312
In my work with students, the two refrains I hear again and again go like this:
1) I want more friends
2) Community is hard
Who doesn’t want more friends? Certainly a major reason students attend school is to find connection, meet new people, and develop long lasting friendships.
But, community is hard. Most of the students I work with attend Boston University, which presents a unique environment. The school is embedded into Boston, stretching across two miles of the city, while running parallel to the Charles River.
It was another BIG month at FaithONCampus.com!
In case you missed it, I made a couple of BIG announcements this past month:
2 Books, the Month of July, & My Attempts at Keeping Things Sane
Announcing the Faith ON Campus Summer Institute
The writing will have a significant impact on my month of July — so you can expect some of the “best of” from the Archives, as well as some guest posts that will totally be worth checking out!
The Summer Institute will not take place until NEXT June — but is something you need to find out about NOW, so be sure to check out that link!
And in case you missed any of these — here are the Top 10 posts for the month of June!
Greetings from our family mini-van — oh the power of technology, powered by thumbs!
We’re currently traveling through Wisconsin, on our way to see family and friends in Minnesota; but I needed to get one more post in before my vacation can officially begin.
If you read my post on Monday, then you learned about some exciting news regarding a couple of books I have in the works.
You would have also noted that at the bottom of that post I eluded to ANOTHER BIG ANNOUNCEMENT coming this week…
Well this is that announcement!
Faith ON Campus is excite to announce the creation of the Faith ON Campus Summer Institute!
As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I’ve got a second book in the works…
The first book is geared towards Mentors — really anyone who might speak into the lives of college students (including, but not limited to: parents, pastors, professors, coaches, directors, et al). I hope it will serve as a guide for having important and timely conversations with students during their formative college years.
The second book will be geared towards college students and will examine some of the things that are literally “killing their souls.”
Earlier this summer I had the chance to sit with Dr. Tim Clydesdale, author of The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens After High School.
His current project (which I think will be released sometime this summer or fall) is on college students collectively.
The research he conducted with high school grads (many of whom went to college), that was presented in his first book, was carried on and was the focus of our conversation.
I recently conducted a short interview with Creighton Alexander — Director of the Wesley Foundation at the University of Alabama, Co-Editor of CollegeUnion.org, and Director of the Refresh Conference about the upcoming Campus Ministry Boot Camps that he’s offering. Here’s what he had to say…
For the past several years our ministries have been challenged to consider how to better reach — and connect with — an increasingly digital world.
From websites to blogs, to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN and Pinterest accounts, online registration and release forms, images and videos — even live streaming.
In many ways it’s felt necessary to obtain additional degrees in web management and social media strategy to co-inside with the ministry degrees many of us hold.
And things continue to grow and change in this area.