How Do We Help Students Find Their Calling?
College students, especially those about to graduate, inevitably are asked, “What are you doing after you graduate?” Most of the college […]
Tag: spiritual growth
The ‘Trend’ of Service
Serving others seems to be, far and away, the most popular form of faith expression on the campus I serve. Much […]
On Finding Fish
In one of my posts from last week I asked if we (as ministers and as ministries) have Room for Doubt(ers)… the […]
Inciting Incidents – Catalyst or Crutch?
The term “inciting incident” is a literary term used to describe the event, point of conflict, or problem in a story or […]
Owning Your Mistakes
I hate to make mistakes. OK. Maybe it has less to do with actually making the mistakes, and more to do with […]
Online Spiritual Formation [?]
While the origins of the internet reach back to the 1960s, I was in college when it came of age (mid […]
Extreme Measures
The picture to the right is of a man (yes, fully clothed) running through Death Valley.
Extreme athletes will often go to extreme measures in their training in order to be most fully prepared for their upcoming event/s.
It’s a part of what makes them great!
Their willingness to push themselves beyond their limits — and far beyond what most of us would be willing to do — is what distinguishes them from the rest of us.
An Important Question
What does it means to “train” people in the faith.
Last summer I had the chance to sit with Dr. Jerry Sittser, Professor of Theology at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA.
As a church historian, Jerry shared story after story from the early church Christians, as well as the desert fathers and mothers, regarding how they engaged in spiritual formation — training to be spiritual athletes.
Is Graduation Really the End?
They’re done, but not gone. They’re college graduates — prepared and equipped to go out and make a difference in the world […]
Have We Done All We Could?
It’s graduation season! The time of the year when we send our graduates off into the world to live out their dreams, […]