What the Emerging Church is Protesting
My friend and former colleague, Jim Belcher, sent me a copy of his new book, Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional
Archive October 14, 2010
Best quote on grace for my summer
I seem to be in this rut of reading Dallas Willard books on my vacation, and I read one last week while in Northern California. It’s Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God,
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?”
Pracademic
I was with some academicians and practitioners from around the U.S. this week and we were talking about how many of us are actually hybrids of the two roles – we are both researchers and youth workers.
A new term …
A Word From Below: The Space Between
Last week Lina Thompson and I were teaching one of our Street Psalms intensives. We have been teaching for FYI’s Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program for several years now and have really enjoyed it. This year twenty urban youth workers …
Theological Therapy
Along with 40 youth workers from around the country, I am immersed in our weeklong FYI Urban Youth Ministry Certificate this week here at Fuller. Here’s what one of our faculty members said a few days ago:
“The deeper into …
Great Quotes from Urban Youth Workers
Yesterday was the first day of our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program. We have 40 youth workers here – sharp, passionate, and strategic leaders from all over the country.
In one of the courses, students shared about what they were …
Authority
I’ve been reading Phyllis Tickle’s new book, The Great Emergence. It’s good; lots of interesting insights about how history, culture, and the church have been woven together for the last 2000 years.
One of the central questions in Tickle’s …
Something is Not Right Revisiting our Definition of Family
Have our youth ministry practices and philosophies sold kids and families short by focusing on a too-narrow definition of “family”? Pulling from family ministry guru Diana Garland’s work, Fraze challenges us with some helpful reframing of our understanding of family in Christ and its implications for youth work.
Faith, Not Should
Three months ago at our Los Angeles Youth Ministry Network, my friend and partner, Chap Clark, shared some insights about Galatians 5 that I’ve been meditating on for the last three months. They are so personal and so deep …