This week, I thought I’d offer some brand-new, super-quick ideas for this summer… to help your ministry in the coming school year. I hope you spend time planning and prepping for the upcoming year over the summer, not only fundraising or working with summer students or taking an annual sabbatical! …
While I’m definitely a fan of the group I’m posting about today, I promise they’re not paying me to write any of this! If you’re a college minister, it really is just an organization you need to be familiar with – and an event you should consider. I got an …
In a severely disjointed field, it’s rare for the “cream” in collegiate ministry to rise to the top. Even though a resource, a practice, or an idea might be extremely valuable, organizational and regional lines often keep exposure limited. While that is quite a bummer, a silver lining is that …
I wrote earlier this week on the need to raise up students who will accept and even revel in the unsettled, “sojourny” experience they’ll likely have after college – if indeed they’re open to the preparation and adventure God has for them. Two helpful thoughts from recent books that could …
Earlier this week, I reflected on the need for us to avoid the easy road of just “doing service” with our students, even though we’re in a climate when volunteerism, social justice, and compassionate concern are all the rage. Let’s tie into that cultural fad, to be sure, but let’s …
On Monday, I reviewed the new documentary Cool It; today I wanted to list some ways we might use it in our campus ministries. Basically, Cool It is a helpful primer on environmental concerns that also provides an intriguing critique – aimed not so much at the prevalent science as …
Cool It could be a useful tool for college ministers, helping them better grasp the climate change issue and start (or continue) discussions on how their students can help in all sorts of world concerns. The film brings up great questions about what it means to truly help; as the …
Meatier matter from the College Ministers Cohort and the Catalyst Conference will likely come later this week – not only by me (hopefully), but as I point to others’ learnings, too. But this blog should also report our successes as a field. And I would honestly say I think the …
By now, anybody who’s coming to the College Ministers Cohort should have gotten their tickets, and I look forward to seeing you there! If you’re not going to make it to Catalyst this year, you can still join in the fun… Be watching the blog for updates on what we’re …
A couple of announcements: The first is for everybody, including those who WON’T be able to join us in Atlanta next week. The second is for those who are planning to attend the College Ministers Cohort at Catalyst! 1. Our heroes, proving (once again) they care about college ministry. Clearly …
