From the monthly archives:

October 2007

Good Stuff on Writing

by Rhett Smith on October 30, 2007

Writing, Talking and Best Practices: An Editor’s Diatribe HT: Smart Christian InterVarsity Press, Smart Christian

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Handcuffed to Numbers, Programs…

by Rhett Smith on October 30, 2007

Christianity Today’s blog, Out of Ur recently posted a couple of interesting blogs titled, Willow Creek Repents? and Willow Creek Repents? (Part 2). One of the interesting quotes is by Greg Hawkins who is the executive pastor of Willow Creek. In the Hawkins’ video he says, “Participation is a big deal. We believe the more [...]

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Social Justice and Youth…

by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2007

Kara Powell of Fuller’s Center for Youth and Family Ministry has a great interview with Shane Claiborne. Check out the interview above, as well as taking a look at the new book that is authored by Kara and Chap Clark, Deep Justice In A Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs [...]

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There were a couple of good questions posted by some commenters on the last post. They were curious of my thoughts about college ministry, as well as wondering what has changed in college ministry. This is an issue that I hope to look at more in length over the next few weeks to month. One [...]

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I was about to post some stuff on the book that I started reading in the previous post, but I’ve had a few interesting things come through my inbox in the last day. And let me say this, because I often talk to people who think that college students are the same as they have [...]

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So what’s the big deal about “hooking up”…

by Rhett Smith on October 16, 2007

Yikes. Miriam Grossman M.D., who is a psychiatrist at UCLA has just written the book, Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student. I just started reading it, and talk about frightening. It is stuff that many in campus ministry have known about for years, and have been talking [...]

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This last year I spent a lot of time thinking about where I wanted to lead our college ministry. The question that was going through my head was, “One year from now, in June of 2008, who do I want, or desire them to be?” With that question in mind we set out to plan [...]

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Tony Jones on Mark Driscoll…

by Rhett Smith on October 6, 2007

Tony Jones is wondering if we are seeing two different versions of Christianity

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Qumran, virtual models and the prophets…

by Rhett Smith on October 2, 2007

When it comes to church community, one thing is for sure….there are lots of gifted people that comprise that community and it’s always fun to sit down with those people, hear their story, pick their brain, etc. Well, this last week my brain was definitely in overdrive as I sat down to morning coffee with [...]

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