(Read Part I here)
Part II
Mature Leadership Within the Church Family
It’s scary to think of the corporations that we rely on in our daily lives as money hungry monsters and it’s even scarier when we can relate them to the institution of our church.
One of the major flaws of institutions (take for example McDonalds) [...]
Part I
“I want someone I can tell my problems to.”
When I heard this from a sophomore male during a group prayer at a recent youth event I was shocked for a number of reasons. One, I could relate. Two, he shouldn’t be alone. Here in this moment he shared a deep longing in his [...]
I linked my way through to an interesting blog called Once a Youth Pastor… and I found that I shared many of the same sentiments towards youth ministry. I’ve been a youth minister for about a year and a half and my views and philosophy about youth ministry, in general, haven’t changed. I think they’ve actually [...]
Matt Rogers is the author of When Answers Aren’t Enough (released this April by Zondervan) which is a raw meditative account of healing and searching for God after the Virginia Tech tragedy in 2006, when 33 students died. (Read my review here.) Matt works as a pastor at New Life Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech and [...]
Mud biscuits in Haiti are going for five cents a piece and the price is rising. For many Haitians, that’s all they have to eat. I just finished eating a low-fat Hot Pocket, two White Castle hamburgers, and now I’m sipping on a french vanilla latte.
In May of last year the United States Department of [...]
The following passage is from the post-apocalyptic book Riddley Walker. After worldwide nuclear war society has returned to the primitive life of the middle ages. Language, technology, and people are changed in every way except for their thirst for power, specifically for the power of nuclear bombs (cools of Addom). They do not re-discover nuclear power, however they [...]
The hero of Remainder has recovered from an accident he doesn’t fully remember and from which he’s received a settlement making him a millionaire. He wavers in how to spend his money until a vision of sorts comes to him and he begins reproducing that vision into reality. But his “re-enactments” become more than just reproducing, they [...]
The Olympics are about 100 days away. Because of China’s politics they have a lot of haters. Tibet and Darfur and restrictions of free speech and the environment are just a few examples of worldwide issues. If you were an Olympic sponsor would you continue to be a sponsor? If you were an Olympic athlete would [...]
Doreen Cronin’s Diary of a Worm is one of the funniest children’s books I’ve ever read. I’m not well read in the children’s book genre, but I picked this one up and was cracking up all the way through it. The story is the diary of a worm (bet you couldn’t have guessed that) and all [...]
Mark Sarvas is known for his popular literary blog The Elegant Variation. His debut novel Harry, Revised is also another achievement. The main character Harry is a broken man with a strained marriage. His wife’s upper class parents and her suspected embarrassment of Harry is a constant bone of contention. But [...]
