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Harvard students reflect on a week of marathon terror

April 22, 2013 No Comments

“I am trying to accept that it is okay to feel conflicted and confused at times like this. That is part of what makes us human. And it is in these moments that we can reach out to God and feel the Holy Spirit. The Lord is with us in green pastures and he leads us beside still waters. The Lord also walks us through the valley of the shadow of death with his rod and his staff. And sometimes we are not sure whether we are in the green pastures or the valley of death’s shadow.

Control of the Church – continued

September 18, 2012 23 Comments

I have read with great interest the recent post about

Keeping Easter alive

April 11, 2012 2 Comments

My prayer is that there will continue to be enough people in the Church who care about the youth that they will help with creative approaches to keep youth formation alive in one fashion or another. I pray that Easter may continue to be a reality in their lives.

Digital Disciple III: Deserted Islands

April 8, 2011 1 Comment

The opportunities inherent in sharing socially across boundaries of distance are tempered by the dangers of ceding too much of oneself to the virtual world. Following Jesus Christ involves locating our identities first and foremost in the God who breathes those identities into our very souls. If we allow too much of our identities to escape into the ether of the virtual world, there may not be enough left to escape into God.

Digital Disciple II: “Millennials,” technology and the Church

April 6, 2011 4 Comments

How does living in a virtual world influence living in both the physical and the spiritual ones? How do we maintain the body of Christ when the physical bodies we see and touch in church expand to include the virtual bodies we inhabit online? What place does prayer have in our instantaneous, Tech-driven world?

Pentecost, young adult ministry, and the journey through adulthood

June 9, 2010 1 Comment

Raised a Presbyterian, exploring Quaker practice and Transcendentalist walks around the pond on Sunday mornings, I was drawn into the Episcopal church by friends who invited me to come play the guitar, and by clergy who wondered whether I’d be willing to direct a youth choir there. When I think of myself then, I realize that I was beginning on the same journey that I’m still on.

The teacher’s way of wisdom and innovation

April 7, 2010 6 Comments

A culture of experts and novices or professionals and amateurs encourages neither tradition nor innovation. In vibrant communities of practice, tradition, or the transmission of knowledge, is a creative act. Consider what the word ‘lay’ or ‘laity’ means outside church talk – “Amateur, inept, or inexpert, not professional.”

What I learned at MIT

March 21, 2010 7 Comments

Campus ministry is mission work, pure and simple. That is increasingly true, as a smaller percentage than ever of the students grew up with any religious practice. And because the public face of Christianity during the lifetimes of most of today’s students has been largely strident and self-righteous, the students who do affiliate with our ministry are reticent to come out as Christians on campus because of what their friends would (wrongly) assume about them.

What young adults need

July 17, 2009 6 Comments

By Otis Gaddis III In previous postings, I have argued that forward movement on LGBT issues is essential for creating the environment in which we

General Convention, Young Adults, and Mission

July 10, 2009 9 Comments

Saying one is anti-gay really is the same as declaring that one is an immoral person. To claim, as so many are doing, that one must continue to be an immoral person because Christianity mandates that one be anti-gay does not legitimate the immorality but simply implicates Christianity as an immoral worldview that should therefore be distrusted, criticized or outright rejected.

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