4 Questions Every Student Should Be Asked
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of getting to meet Amena Brown during her visit to campus. She is on […]
Tag: spiritual growth
Beyond a “Personal” Faith
In my post on Tuesday I asked the question: are we creating “safe havens” for our Christian students to hide away from the […]
Safe Haven Christianity
Are we creating wimpy Christians? Are our ministries functioning as “safe havens” for young believers to seek harbor — not from anti-Christian […]
Caring For Students — From Now To Christmas
For most of us now, we’ve crested the middle of the fall term and have begun the slow decent towards Christmas. Sure, […]
Do You Encourage Students to Wrestle With God & Scripture?
It may seem like a dumb question, but I wonder… Do we really encourage our students to wrestle with their understanding […]
College Years as Desert Experience [?]
With all of the transition, struggle, change and formation that takes place during the college years, I wonder how our approach to […]
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 […]
The 8 Minute Stillness Challenge
This summer I had the chance to spend time at our cabin in the Catskills. It’s a simple log cabin bordering […]
Unfinished Business
I’ve been thinking about this image all week. It’s another image that was presented to me at the Prepare conference. Sure, I’ve […]
Social Networking as Ministry
Last summer I had the chance to lead a couple of workshops on Social Networking as Ministry at the United Methodist Collegiate Ministries ‘Prepare’ Conference.
It was a lot of fun and generated some great conversation.
I made sure that they knew I did not consider myself to be an “expert” in the area of social networking and let them know that there’s a lot for us to learn from one another as we think about having a pastoral e-presence.