Our pastor wants to do some sort of church wide assessment or survey to get a snapshot of our congregation’s spiritual health. What are some of the best options out there? We are willing to pay some for it, but not an exorbitant amount. Here would be the perfect solution for us: Individuals fill out […]
Andrew Root’s New LiveBlog: Today at 3:30 PM
If you are of an admirer of Andrew Root, you might be pleased to know that he has started a “LiveBlog” that will air live today, Tuesday September 22 at 3:30 PM (I’m almost positive it is central time). The current topic is his new book Relationships Unfiltered. It is essentially an internet radio show, […]
Book Review: Relationships Unfiltered by Andrew Root
Relationships Unfiltered: Help for Youth Workers, Volunteers, and Parents on Creating Authentic Relationships by Andrew Root is a condensed and popularized version of his groundbreaking first book Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation (read my review here). Just a look at the subtitles reveals the shift in […]
Reggie McNeal on the Bible
Reggie McNeal, a Baptist, in his book The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church says this about the Bible in North America: The current dilemma with how we use the Bible is twofold. One is that in the last gasps of the modern church, we have made Bible study in itself a mark […]
Sojourners has Lost All Credibility
A few years ago I was searching for an alternative to the Religious Right style of Christian politics and came across Jim Wallis as he was doing a media tour promoting his new book God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It. It seemed like every website I went […]
Against Bible Memorization Programs in Youth Ministry
Something got me thinking about Bible memorization programs in youth ministry yesterday, and my initial reaction towards them was negative. I wasn’t sure exactly why, so I thought about it for a while and came up with some reasons why I’m not a fan: Memorization does not equal maturity or discipleship. I’ve written before about […]
Linkworthy 9/14/09
It’s been a while since my last Linkworthy post. Some good stuff I’ve seen over the past few weeks: Youth Ministry Common misconception about student ministry: Student Ministries must be fun and entertaining because students have a short attention span and need lots of stimulus in order to keep them engaged. Some radical ideas for […]
Church as Incarnational Pneumatology
The following is a section from a paper I wrote this summer for a youth ministry course. Craig Van Gelder offers a robustly theological explanation for the nature of the church that gives a glimpse of how exactly God is present through this group of human beings: In this view, the Spirit-created church lives as […]
Phyllis Tickle on Homosexuality
I just finished Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why last week and read the quote below the day after I returned from the ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Given the nature of what happened that previous week, it stuck out. It’s an interesting historical analysis. To approach any of the arguments and […]
Health Care and a Theology of Death
Perhaps it is healthier to be prepared for death and die younger than it is to be afraid of death and constantly try to delay the inevitable. I’ve been trying to keep up with the health care debate since it is a pretty big issue, and there’s been one tactic that has me a bit […]
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