Church

Part 3 from last week: The Heart of Road Work, is here Image by Steve Watts from Pixabay Leadership: My wife Sharon and I share a common affinity for serving as second-in-command. Neither of us enjoy being the main...

In my prior post I suggested two main causes for students’ diminished participation in the church: ecclesiology, and caricatures from campus (the focus of this post). On campus, the dominant portrayal of the church is that it’s guilty of...

In my last post I shared my observations about Christian students’ lack of commitment to the church. How did they come to this position? I offer the following thoughts with a bit of caution. See what you think: 1....

In my prior post I did a flyover of the collegiate landscape, mainly in terms of atheism and agnosticism. What I meant to suggest is that, overall, campus culture is quite secular. As for religion, it's allowed to exist...

Church people often ask me, "What's happening on college campuses these days? What are students like?" I usually start my reply at the macro level, and talk about atheism, because along with its softer cousin, agnosticism, it's the most...

In my last post I presented the idea of God as a gradualist. He works on social reforms incrementally -- at the speed of humanity rather than the speed of divinity. The incarnation is the ultimate example of God...

This will be an impossible post. To say something about the increasingly complex subject of sexuality in a short blog is, perhaps, foolish. Here is my attempt: Young Christians such as Mary in my prior post who have friends...

prior post: Walking Away from the Faith Part 3: Suggestions from the Pros In the old days, sex education for young people in the church focused on boundaries: how far one could go with a partner without actually sinning....

prior post: Walking Away from the Faith, Part 2: Angry at the Church I have the arduous privilege of working in the arena of higher education where young people regularly come and go from the church. Mostly go, actually...

Prior post: misunderstanding the "perfection" of God leads to disappointment Research institutions such as Barna Group and Lifeway (as summarized in CT) tell us that the church dropout rate for young people age 16-24 is more than half. Some young...