If you couldn’t tell from my Tweets, Collegiate Week was a great week gathered with some 18 or 1900 people – and I’d guess 200 or more were college ministers (including spouses). I figured I’d spend a post on a few items you might find interesting from the week, including …
If you’re unfamiliar with Byron Borger and Hearts & Minds Books, then that’s a major piece of our field that you should add to your puzzle! But it’s likely you have seen him / them, especially if you’ve made it to an Ivy Jungle gathering or the Jubilee Conference anytime …
I had a blast teaching my seminar on “Better Brainstorming” – thanks for everybody who came and everybody who prayed for me. Those at the seminar truly made it better – coming up with some great ideas (as we practiced a brainstorming tool together), asking some great questions, and also …
A few different Book-related items came across my desk recently, so I wanted to point you to these resources! book sales: Westminster Theological Seminary AND Hearts & Minds Books Are you familiar with either of these spots? Even if you’re not in the book-buying mood at the moment, they’re worth …
I was working on something recently and was reminded of the excellent (and quite brief) primer on Fasting by Bill Bright, presently titled Your Personal Guide to Fasting and Prayer and available for free online right here. Bright was clearly a big fan of Fasting, and he participated in a …
A college minister buddy asked me recently for some resources for better understanding Millennials. I figured it was just as easy to post that as it was to write him back, so here goes. (Thanks for the blog topic, D-Mo.) If you read this blog regularly, you know that discussing …
O One year ago today, I e-published Reaching the Campus Tribes: An Opening Inquiry. The response – then and continuing – has been utterly encouraging. So I want to THANK YOU. Thanks to the many of you who helped spread the book: electronically, of course, but also via CD, via …
What else could be said about this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? It’s been phenomenal, and I hope it’s a cool chance for you to revel in the awesomeness of this portion to which God has called us. Other than that note, I’m going to jump right in to this …
You might know that I’ve been exploring the campus ministry scene in the great town of Fort Worth; as I began preparing this post, I was still there. Then a birthday dinner with my sister and her buddies, and then I finally made it back across the Metroplex to home. …
If College Ministry as a field ever becomes as valued in greater Christianity as it should be, it’s conceivable that we’d have a standard Love the College Ministry Month. While many might vote for August or September as a helpful focus-month, I might offer March as a more arresting selection. …
