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 …
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.
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 …
Don’t worry—it’s not going to be the next book title from FYI. But lately I’ve seen a few articles and bits of research that have made me question whether I’m really reading anything any more. I do read quite a …
Challenging the assumptions behind most youth ministry models, Fraze researches the Old and New Testaments for a theologically-grounded perspective on intergenerational ministry as a core task of the Church.
Does God want converts or justice? False question.
How deep is God’s justice, really? Take a look again at Exodus.
Jesus is the high point of God’s redemption, but not the first time God thought about coming to our rescue.
Whose mission is it, anyway?
One of the highlights of our recent justice research has been interviews we’ve conducted with entrepreneurial thinkers, youth workers, and justice leaders around the country. To jump start your thinking, we have compiled memorable excerpts from the full-text interviews available in our new book, Deep Justice in a Broken World.
