I’m excited to announce the launch of my first eBook! This has been an internal work bubbling up for almost 15 years now… and it’s finally made its way on to (digital) print. I’m humbled to now share with you: Reclaiming the Formative Years! As I read “Reclaiming the Formative Years” I was nearly moved …
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Lent: A Season of Possibility
Today is Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent… In the Christian tradition, Lent is the period of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer – through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial – for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked …
Some of the Best Student Leaders Are…
Some of the best student leaders are… the ones who choose to come back! Their worth is impossible to quantify… because there’s so much they bring with them. Consider the impact of even a handful of student leaders — who, having spent a year or more working alongside of us — opt to return and …
Why Relationships Are Considered Too Risky, But the Hookup Culture “Safe” and Easy
I think there’s a fundamental reason why we have seen our student culture shift from (primarily) pursuing authentic, long-term relationships… to settling for casual sexual encounters within the hookup culture… In a word… fear. It’s a fear of pain. A fear of loss. A fear of investing in something… only to see it fall …
Why Abstinence Isn’t Working In America
The call to young Christians to be abstinent until marriage is not working. Why do I say that? The September/October 2011 issue of Relevant Magazine, in an article entitled (Almost) Everyone’s Doing It, starts with the following revelation: Eighty percent of young, unmarried Christians have had sex. Two-thirds have been sexually active in the past year. …
LOVE
Today — St. Valentine’s Day — seemed like a great day to break from our Friday tradition with a special installment of the ‘Reclaiming Words’ series! The purpose of this series is to explore together some words that need to be introduced — or re-introduced — to this current generation of college students. These words …
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