As a kid I loved watching cartoons on Saturday mornings. I especially liked watching Wile E. Coyote attempt to catch the Roadrunner – forever without success – he always made me laugh! As I’ve observed our students for the past 5 years attempt to transition into this place [spiritually speaking] the best [and most unfortunate] image [...]
I Weep At The Wonder Of It
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My family thinks I have a heart of steel. And it’s true. I rarely cry in sad movies. I’m a rock at funerals. I’m an off-the-chart “T” in the Myers-Briggs world, with no visible “F”. It’s sort of embarrassing, really, especially as someone who claims to be following a ministerial call. Shouldn’t those of a [...]
Organic AND Pragmatic
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Greetings Campus Ministers…my students are heading your way! Last Saturday I had the privilege of watching a half-dozen students I had only met that morning at 8am dive in and get dirty doing flood relief work here in Franklin, TN (the greater Nashville area). You see they were invited by a friend who only months [...]
Is Graduation Really the End?
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They’re done, but not gone. They’re college graduates — prepared and equipped to go out and make a difference in the world — but they don’t seem quite ready to step across that threshold from collegiate life to post-grad participation in the ‘real’ world. So what are we to do? Especially if they look to [...]
Have We Done All We Could?
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It’s graduation season! The time of the year when we send our graduates off into the world to live out their dreams, live into their passions, and to make the world a better place… right!? A couple of years ago I polled the readers here at FaithONCampus.com, asking: What’s the biggest issue facing graduating seniors? [...]
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