A few days ago, I wrote a post highlighting an issue I’m feeling more and more is crucial in for us to address. The issue’s old-school name is churchmanship – in this case, describing the involvement of college students in local churches during their collegiate career. Especially if you are …
Is a Christian college actually a church? What about a dorm Bible study? What about a major campus-based ministry, like Campus Crusade or InterVarsity? Do Christian communities like these equate to “church involvement”? Do they need to? In EACH of the first four issues of Wheaton College’s school newspaper, The …
Sunday morning’s “Midwest Anglican Awakening” service at Wheaton was powerful. (The outside pickets were peaceful, and kinda small.) Like-minded Anglicans from throughout the Midwest – from as far as Minnesota – joined together to hear Peter Akinola (you can catch up with this event in the last post). It was …
Tomorrow I plan to attend the multi-church service among Anglican and former Anglican churches, to be held at Edman Chapel on Wheaton‘s campus. Peter Akinola, Anglican Primate of Nigeria, is speaking. [The follow-up post is here.] The reason this is a “big deal,” besides the fact that Akinola is a …
This afternoon, I had the privilege of attending regular, large group meetings of both Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at UIC. It’s crazy to know that I shared that experience this week with literally thousands of students on hundreds of campuses around the world. But not only …
A few weeks ago, I diligently covered my first weekend’s five church experiences in this post. Since then, nothin’ more about one of the more broadly-interesting parts of my trip. Sorry about that.In hopes of catching up, though, I present my church experiences from weekends #2 (Aug. 25 & 26) …
I’m writing this in the middle of a very full New Student Orientation day. I will say, there are far more colleges in Chicagoland than I realized. It seems like every time I drive anywhere, I end up having to Google some new school when I get home, ’cause I …
This will be a very quick update. Starting Saturday night, I attended 5 church services across 27 hours. I’ve been to 2 different orientations (at the same school campus), a church fair with 32 churches, and all over the northern, western, and Downtown parts of Chicago. It feels just like …
A study of great importance for the field of college ministry came out today from Lifeway Research – a new arm of our convention that I think I’m falling in love with.This time, they’ve done the newest study (a very welcome study) on the church dropout rate post-high school. The …
