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Just got off the phone with a life time friend and co-conspirator in youth ministry. Another mutual friend came up in the conversation who has been active and effective in youth ministry since the mid 70’s. Conventional wisdom says you … Continue reading →

Check out this week’s Carnival of Education! Week after week they have interesting and inspiring discussions of educations. Pposts range from school administration to homescholing to higher ed – and everything in between.

On the face of it, most of us would choose satisfaction over discontent. It’s so much more comfortable. But that’s only as long as we leave the issue as an abstraction. Once we ask what it is we’re discontent or … Continue reading →

The Dallas Morning News tells the story (registration required – but free) of the Nguyen family of the metroplex. A generation ago poor immigrants from Vietnam, now they are a large family of doctors, engineers and educators. By their reckoning … Continue reading →

Rock and Rap and Pop are going global today with the “Live 8” event. A next-gen version of 1985’s “Live Aid,” this re-do is again headed up by Bob Geldof. The theme this time is poverty. This world-wide concert event … Continue reading →

Christianity Today has a feature on Jack Hayford, pastor of Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California. I’ve never been to the church, and haven’t had much opportunity to hear Jack Hayford or read his books. I did meet … Continue reading →

Over the past couple of years the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has invested much time and energy in defining pastoral effectiveness. By the quality of the handouts they distributed, one can tell this was very important. … Continue reading →

What is one to do if one wants to be a United Methodist Bishop? As I noted before, if one can get a gig leading another Annual Conference in one’s jurisdiction in morning bible study, one can dramatically increase one’s … Continue reading →

Maybe when I grow up I’ll be able to write half as well as Tom Wright. In this piece (link is in the title) Wright summarizes the claim of the Book of Acts as “Jesus is Lord and Caesar Isn’t” … Continue reading →

Apparently the Supreme Court can’t decide if the Ten Commandments are religious or not. Or perhaps they cannot reach consensus on how religious they are. I am interested in your opinion: Are the Ten Commandments inherently and inextricably religious?