This past week in my Foundations of Student Ministry Class (which is huge by the way and really encourages me for the future) I talked about the rise of adolescence and its damaging impact on student ministry and on men. I wrote about this in Raising the Bar, a book challenging the status quo of [...]

“I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.” I Corithians 3:2 “A decade ago teens were coming to church youth group to play, coming for the entertainment, coming for the pizza. They’re not even coming for the pizza anymore. They say, ‘We [...]

“Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.” Charles Darwin   “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to [...]

I remember the first time Matt asked a question in my class. I do not remember the question. But I remember the way he asked it, and something more. I remember the look in his eyes. You know, the look someone has when they want something so badly, almost to the point of desperation. Matt [...]

I love students. Good thing since I spend so much time with them.  Yesterday some colleagues and I (I call them the mighty men of the faculty) helped a lot of new students move in. Okay I mostly hugged necks and welcomed people and let the young guys haul the stuff, but I was there! [...]