Long, long ago (way back in October), I attended Catalyst Conference for the first time. In case you’ve never heard of Catalyst, it’s almost certainly the most prominent Christian leadership conference out there. Not only helping thousands of ministry leaders, Catalyst also aims to help anyone who leads: with or …
I finally was able to make a map of the trip so far! Here it is (starting and ending in Dallas): You can click the map to play around with it at Google. (GoogleMaps is the best. True that. Double true!) Don’t expect exactitude here! But you can see the …
My name is not Bill. However, probably a dozen people – first in Chicago, now here in Boston – have “heard” me introduce myself as Bill on this Road Trip. Plenty of others are altogether flummoxed by the name I use – Ben, the most simple name in the whole …
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 …
These last two weeks have meant lots of interviews around town – I mentioned some of that already. But this is a great joy – connecting with the guys and gals who are in the trenches of this thing called College Ministry. Maybe it’s a full-time college minister at a …
I had the awesome opportunity to see “Wicked” again Friday night. It has a standing engagement in Chicago, and for good reason this musical continues to be a very popular show on Broadway, touring, and in several standing engagements in the US and London. My friend Lance talks a lot …
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 …
Sorry for the lack of blogging this week. As I wrote in the last post, it’s been a decently-full week, for sure. But that means lots of interviews & other explorations, which is what this trip is about! Good times! The big news today, however, is that it’s official… I’m …
