I recently heard someone say that there are thirty-three thousand different denominations of Christianity across the world. Thirty-three thousand. Coming so soon after a friend informed me that he had been this close to accepting Jesus before a conversation about...

As I’ve shared the vision of missional communities with students, I’ve noticed a pattern. Most of the time, students get overwhelmed. It just seems like so much. Building relationships with non-Christians can seem daunting when you look at your schedule...

The College of William & Mary was chartered in 1693 and has rich history embedded within its well-worn brick pathways and aged brick buildings. It is said that students who go to William & Mary enter in with aspirations of...

The walk from MIT to Park Street Church, a beautiful old Boston church, requires the crossing of the Charles River. Beneath your footsteps on the bridge is engraved a poem by Henry Longfellow that begins: “Listen my children and you...

When I started college, I only had experiences in the moderately charismatic, nondenominational, megachurch scene.  I thought I knew what Christianity looked like and thought that was the only way. Now, being on the post-college side of things, I am...

I played basketball all through elementary, middle, and high school. I just loved the game. I even took it with me a bit to college (UT Coed Champs of 1999….My 15 minutes of fame).  In middle school I had this...

I just attended the funeral of Dean Smith, arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all time. I was blessed to serve as a team manager under him, and the life lessons I learned through basketball (some 30 years ago)...

When I first arrived at college, I had a slew of beliefs that I’d acquired from a lifetime in religious America. Call it an ‘us vs. them’ mentality, or ascribe it to my natural tendency to assume the worst, but...

I have been in the “unity” business for a long, long time, ever since I first started gathering Christian students from different churches and ministries to pray together as a freshman at the University of Texas in 1991.  Over the...

I miss neighborhood churches.  I know, I know.  In today’s world it’s not likely that we’ll ever go back to the liturgical tradition of parishes, but I am encouraged by some of the newer churches being planted to reach a...