Post-Grad Summer
This weekend I had the opportunity to speak to a group of high school students who had just graduated and were heading out on a senior trip with their youth pastor. I’m speaking to them again later today, on their …
Archive: October 2010
Stuff Has a Story – And It’s Us
Looking for some interesting fodder for a youth group talk focused on justice this summer? Try The Story of Stuff. It’s not a church curriculum video. It’s a truth-telling video by a maverick storyteller who cares about global injustice.…
Justice Church Partnerships
This weekend as I was reading Christianity Today, I was struck by a quote from an interview with Princeton’s Robert Wuthnow based on his new book, Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches
Effective Homeless Ministry
About a year ago, Fuller’s Dean of the School of Psychology and I had lunch with the senior pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church, Mark Brewer. Mark is a Fuller alum and a good friend of Fuller and I …
College Flashbacks
Yesterday I was walking around my alma mater. As much as I loved my time in college, and am grateful for the amazing friends I had and growth I experienced (believe me, the two were closely linked), I find that …
Maybe Bono is Wrong
At least so says Dambisa Moyo, a native Zambian with a Harvard and Oxford education who recently authored the book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Smelling the Flowers – Literally
So this morning I was walking my three year-old, Jessica, to her preschool and she asked me to stop and smell the flowers with her. Literally.
I wasn’t running late, but I was running right-on-time to get to Fuller. And …
Youth Pastor Remix
Our friend and FYI author Kimberly Williams is one of those unconventional-thinker-types who likes to ask provocative questions about life and ministry. One of the questions that stirs her up these days is, “How is the role of a DJ like the role of a pastor?”
Holding Down the Block
I listened to Florence Haraway talk last week about the 25-year history of Harambee Christian Ministries in Northwest Pasadena, just a few blocks from my home. I’m thankful for Harambee — they mark a watershed in the way crime in …
The New Goodnight Kiss
There’s a new book and documentary out called Oral Sex Is The New Goodnight Kiss
based on research by Sharlene Azam on teenage prostitution. This isn’t the teen prostitution of the past that primarily involved girls from high-risk settings (I …
