Earlier this month, I offered an idea for college ministries’ large group gatherings: a “monologue” of sorts, chatting through the issues of the day. Today’s Fridea offers a spin on that idea (and mostly comes from the fact that I love ESPN’s Around the Horn). What if – weekly or occasionally …
Today’s pursuit is less an effectiveness-increaser, and more a matter of retaining what collegiate ministries have built. Will we be ready for the generation behind the Millennials? I’m not sure if we’d say that college ministries were nearly as “ahead of the curve” on reaching the Millennial Generation as we …
Continuing the series… Whether it’s a summertime adventure or a next step after graduation, college students can get really excited about just doing something. It might be an opportunity we’ve shared with them – missions, Christian camp, going on staff with a ministry, etc. It could be something “pretty normal”: an internship, for …
It’s become nearly cliche to comment that Millennials “want to change the world, and they want to do it by next year.” But the joke isn’t too far from the truth. As I’m discussing ways we can add wisdom to our students’ passions, this is an obvious one. But the …
Since it happens to be my anniversary (but now I’m sitting down to blog), I’m pondering ways in which my own college ministry experience (as a student) prepared me for the past two years. I’m sure it did affect my road ahead – definitely by being exposed to Tommy Nelson’s Song …
I have the real honor of teaching a couple of times at Dallas Theological Seminary this month. The topic? “Models of Young Adult Ministry” and then “Church-Based Models of Young Adult Ministry.” (“Young Adult Ministry” here includes Collegiate Ministry, and that’s actually a majority of the focus; the hope is …
This week, I’ve been reflecting anew on the Millennial wizardry of Jimmy Fallon – and you can see not only those posts but ones from my original “Jimmy Fallon & Gen Y” series right here. But this gets me thinking once again about a question I ponder regularly: Could campus …
As you may have noticed, I’m thinking a lot about Jimmy Fallon’s success among Millennials this week. Today brings me to another article, this time in The Guardian, and specifically his effectiveness with social media. (Read this week’s posts and older one analyzing Fallon’s success here.) Reading the Guardian article …
In a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I wanted to point to an NPR article I found this morning – a review of the first Tonight Show this week, with a look at Fallon’s Millennial attraction. The whole thing‘s pretty interesting, but the main point for me is here: Unlike Conan …
It’s actually big news, and NBC is using the Olympics to push it all the harder: Jimmy Fallon is the sixth host of the Tonight Show, and it’s (back) in New York. He’s the guy who could never quite keep from giggling on SNL, the one who does some pretty …
