Healthy God-Centered Sexuality
We have all heard the word “chastity.” I’m not sure about you, but the word that immediately follows that in my head […]
Tag: love
What Every College-Aged Woman Needs to Know
[Adapted with permission from Northfield Publishing from chapter ten of Girls Uncovered: New Research on What America’s Sexual Culture does to Young […]
Dealing With Sexual Shame
In the Fall semester, I met with four different women who each had woken to discover that they had sex the previous […]
Cohabitation Conundrums
Joy Eggerichs blogs regularly at loveandrespectNOW.com where she answers her readers questions about faith and relationships in her Ask Joy feature. This […]
Are Boundaries Realistic?
I’ve seen a movement with my young adult friends living in intense relationships (more than just casual dating) to set up boundaries. […]
Pride, Shame and a Call to Authenticity
Six months ago, one of my best friends from college got married. Friends from around the country flew into Seattle for three […]
True Love is Tired of Waiting
I was in college when the “True Love Waits” campaign hit its stride in the mid 90’s. I remember taking the youth […]
Are Your Students Universalists?
Scot McKnight is on campus this week. I’m really excited about how God is already using him to challenge our […]
Snubbing God
In a previous post I talked about why (most) students side with Rob Bell.
Near the end of that post I suggested that, if push came to shove, many students today would choose loyalty to their friends — over and above their loyalty to God.
The reason?
Because they cannot conceive of a God that would subject their non-believing friends to an eternity of pain, suffering and separation from God.
Many of today’s college students, much like Bell (and plenty of others), believe (or want to believe — or need to believe) that God will make a way for those people who do not confess Jesus as Lord during their time here on earth.
Why (Most) Students Side With Rob Bell
I don’t know how many college students have taken the time to pick up Bell’s Love Wins, let alone read it, over the course of a busy spring term… but this summer, if they do, I think we’ll find that many of them will more or less fall into agreement with much of what Bell has to say.
And it makes perfect sense, really.
We’ve become a global community — and few know this better than our students.