I love it when theologically astute people comment on youth ministry issues. D.W. Congdon, Princeton M.Div. Student, has commented on the recent NY Times article about youth ministries using Halo 3 to attract a crowd. Good thoughts. A quote: If a church wants to be relevant to teenage boys, there are plenty of other ways, […]
Prayer and Capitalism
There’s a great post over at Inhabitatio Dei. An excerpt: [I]n the actual practice of making decisions and establishing agendas and practices in Christian ministries today, it is the flow of money or its absence that is accorded primal theological significance. How decisions get made regarding the shape and focus of the ministerial life is […]
In good company
As I’ve said before, I believe that ecclesiology is the number one problem facing youth ministry (and the church) today. It seems I am in good company. In my inbox today was the monthly E-Journal from Fuller Seminary’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry (All youth ministers should subscribe to this and actually read it). […]
Emerging Church & Academy, Part 2
I wrote a post a few days ago saying that the emerging church is the result of the academy being brought into the church. This afternoon I read this quote on the Deep Church website: [T]he emerging church conversation has been invigorated by the energy, life and creativity that has come from some significant advances […]
Emerging Church: Bridging the Academy & Church?
This is just a quick observation that I seem to have noticed. It seems to me that popular evangelical leaders read books by people like MacArthur, Warren, Hybels, Swindol, Lucado, and Stanley: practitioners and pastors. However, it seems like emerging church leaders are reading books by Hauerwas, Wright, Brueggemann, Volf, McKnight, Moltmann, Franke, and Grenz: […]
Are You Infected?
Below is the article I wrote for this month’s church newsletter. I really struggled writing it; I just couldn’t put the words together like I wanted to. Hopefully, it will be coherent enough that people will mildly understand what I was getting at. As we’re trying to communicate a new way of doing youth ministry to […]
All Books Read in 2007
I started doing this last year, and thought it would be a good idea to continue this year. Maybe this year, I can keep up with the list as I go and not forget books. Anyways, this post is mostly for my own personal record-keeping. As I read books and put them in my sidebar, […]
Ecclesiology
I’m not used to having people actually read my blog. Youth Guy Evan apparently stumbled across it a little while ago and actually came back to see what I wrote in response to his comment. While I appreciate his interest, he is actually forcing me to keep on my toes and explain what I am […]
More Issues in Youth Ministry
Youth Guy Evan wrote this in response to a previous post: I’d be curious to know though, who do you think is to blame for youth ministry’s dependency on youth pastors? Culture? Students? Parents? the Church? Ourselves? All of the above? Difficult to tell… because i think at times all of them are true at […]
Episcopal happenings
A decent amount of news seemed to be made by Katharine Jefferts Schori becoming the first woman to be the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. For those familiar with the situation, her theology has been very controversial. That discussion is for another day. What struck me was the date of […]
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