The Convergence of Christ, Culture & the College Years
More sleep. Yep… I said it. Novel idea, I know. And while students could use more sleep in general, it’s all the more important during the stress-filled weeks surrounding final exams. This is a season notorious for late nights (or all-nighters) — and when coupled with poor eating and high stress that are also commonplace during this [...]
During a recent visit to our campus, Steve Garber engaged students in a series of dialogues designed to get them thinking about the needs of the world and how God might want to use them — in some way — to make a difference. But one of the big issues he identified was that: Many [...]
We live in an age of distraction. It’s not just something we’re learning to “deal with,” but something we believe is “essential” to life in the 21st Century. In some ways we wear our “state of distraction” as a badge of honor… Naively believing that it speaks to our level of importance. We don’t [...]
[This post is a follow-up to last week’s post entitled:Why Abstinence Isn’t Working In America. I would encourage you to read that one (before this one) if you haven’t already. I think you’ll benefit from the background that post (and the numerous comments) will offer in setting up this post.] It seems that many of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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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