Today’s blizzard reminds me of wintery days at Cornell where the trek over the river and through the woods to class would require I bring two extra changes of clothes: one for if the temperature dropped and another for if...

I remember sitting in a room with my friend Scott when he recently moved from a hospital into hospice care. He had spent the past year battling cancer. His condition worsened and it was a hard pill for him to...

This Friday is Campus Renewal’s “First Friday Fast,” when we encourage students across the nation to fast from food for 24 hours in order to give their attention to prayer for their universities.  Some have wondered, is it Biblical to...

It was during my sophomore year in college that I really began understanding what it meant to walk with Jesus in relationship. It was God’s grace through faithful men and women who pursued me with the love and truth of...

Hook Em Horns! I graduated from The University of Texas in 2001. Back in the days when Riverside was still considered the “ghetto”(where I lived happily for 3 years), when Taco Bell and Wendys were the only good things in the...

So unlike most of you who have been a campus pastor for years, I just made the plunge this week. Campus ID and parking permit in hand, I am off to SMU to save the world. For the first time...

Jonathan Edwards, the great 18th century pastor and leader of the First Great Awakening, was one of the first in our country to ask the question, “How can we unite believers across the country in prayer.”  After hearing about how...

This has been the most difficult and unrewarding eight months of ministry in my life. Personally, I have been referring to it as the season of “buildings and bucks” because I have been acting as more of a general contractor...

Working for two campus-related ministries and being the mom of a college student, I read a lot of research, hear a lot of reports and am all too aware of how precariously close we are to having the voice of...

There is a mystery to the way prayer works.  Often the Biblical commands about prayer and the Biblical narratives about prayer seem to be at odds with one another.  Prayer often feels like a two-sided coin. This semester I would...