The first movie I remember watching in theatre was Pixar’s Toy Story on a elementary school field trip. Still one of my favorite films growing up, it taught me many life lessons, in what it means to take care of...

I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them.  A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just...

How can you tell if someone is in campus ministry? Their calendar year doesn’t start on the first of January but at the start of a new school year. One of the realities of campus ministry is that it has...

Baylor, once relatively unheard of, is hurtling into becoming a household name.  The once small football program is now housed in a shiny new stadium, with fans desperate for tickets and expecting wins.  Robert Griffin III is championing a new...

I recently moved to a college town in the Northeast that is full of intellectuals and hippies. These are my people. I get weirdly giddy around free spirits and the bookish. I may have lived most of my life around...

John Donne famously said, “No man is an island” in his book Meditations XVII.  No matter who you are talking to at Texas Tech, the consensus is that God is revealing himself one day at a time as the God...

What would you do if you lived in a country where children are taken from their family, husbands are murdered and the wives raped?  What would you do if you lived in a region where up to 9 out of...

Competition versus relationship Perhaps you’ve observed this trend on your campus as well … the majority of campus ministry leaders on the Colorado State University (CSU) campus agree that there is oftentimes a bit of competition amongst Christian student groups....

Everybody benefits when there is a growing culture of men and women practicing biblical conflict resolution. Yelling, pushing, and slamming doors, were some of the sad trademarks of my childhood and teenage years. I didn’t know how to deal with...

We have been examining the values of one of the most influential churches in history – the church at Antioch. We find the beginning of their story in Acts 11: “Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that...