Five ways to rethink Senior Sunday at your church
You’re probably already doing something for seniors. Here are some ways to be even more thoughtful, more intentional, and as a result, make this moment more fruitful this year.
4 healing steps for leaders of color serving in white spaces
How might we, as leaders of color, develop practices that allow us to thrive and invite others in? These 4 healing steps pave the way to sustainability in ministry and work.
Growing Young
From Faith To Faithing
We do young people a disservice when we witness them questioning, struggling, reacting, even pitching the way they believe, and assume that they’ve lost their faith (noun). In actuality, like Peter, they are walking away from more simplistic vessels of faithing, seeking to construct bigger, more faithful faithing through which to hold what they know and what they experience. In faithing, we’re constantly discarding and acquiring perspective that informs our meaning making.
Open their eyes to a bigger world
We want to open young people's eyes to the daily lives of kids across cultures who in some ways are just like them, and in other ways quite different. We also hope to start younger—exposing kids in children’s ministry to a bigger world and to a deeper empathy that’s hard to achieve in most curricular approaches.
Three reasons you shouldnt call your teenager a tech addict And five things you can do instead
You don’t need us to tell you that mobile devices are pervasive in our culture, specifically among teenagers. Roughly 3 out of 4 teenagers own a smartphone today in the US, granting unprecedented access to and constant contact with their peers and indeed the entire world.
Last week Common Sense Media released a comprehensive research brief on technology addiction among kids and teenagers. Addiction has been a buzzword swirling around young people and digital media for a while.
We’re as concerned as anyone about this at FYI.
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Five ways to rethink Senior Sunday at your church
You’re probably already doing something for seniors. Here are some ways to be even more thoughtful, more intentional, and as a result, make this moment more fruitful this year.
Processing racialized violence with students
We must address racism, white supremacy, and racialized violence in light of Jesus’ command to love our neighbors—which, it turns out, is tied up in the way we love God.