In 2010, the University of Texas was named the nation’s #1 party school.  We (UT) seem to find ourselves on the top 10 or 20 of this list every year. As a result, many well meaning high school students, parents,...

  Last Thursday at the University of Texas, 76 college pastors from 35 different campus ministries met to discuss the “state of the campus.”  This was the 12th annual gathering where we discuss the Longhorn Chronicles, our annual “spiritual map.” We...

Last week at the University of Texas we had our first campus minister Fusion Group, a weekly time of prayer for college pastors at UT. Thirty-nine pastors from twenty-one ministries attended. What a way to start the school year! We’ve...

Last week I finished my whirlwind tour around Texas, meeting with ministry partners individually over coffee or a meal and in small groups in several partners’ homes. It really is one of my favorite weeks of the year. I love...

I am being a bit facetious with my title, of course. I really love the Great Commission. It’s the aim of Campus Renewal Ministries to equip students to be missionaries in the marketplace, in the neighborhoods, and especially overseas among...

The past few weeks Austin Stone Community Church has been teaching a series on the sovereignty of God in suffering.  While I’ve enjoyed the series and agree with most of their theology on this difficult subject, I have also been...

I hope the title to this blog is not too offensive to anyone. Or maybe I hope it is. That’s kind of why I am writing I guess, because I was bothered by it myself. Good Christian Bitches is the...

I’m am tired of the tolerance movement – at least as far as it is defined by the University of Texas and so many other campuses across America. In about two weeks incoming freshman will descend on UT’s campus for...

Every year about this time we ask all of the 67 campus ministries at the University of Texas to complete a year-end survey. We compile the data each year and create a resource known as the  Longhorn Chronicles. It’s all...

Last week I wrote about the difficulty many students face this time of year, as they are being asked to consider positions of leadership in campus ministries. It has been my observation that this process causes a lot of tension...