It’s that time of year again guys. It’s recruiting time! At the start of the school year ministries “compete” for all of the new students. At the end of the school year ministries “compete” for new leaders. Some recruit new…

Last week at the University of Texas we hosted our 18th annual Rez Week. If you were there, you heard me say something from the stage every night. I kept saying, “Rez Week is a celebration of our unity.  It…

One of the most common irritants of the college student’s spiritual life seems to be the threat of marriage. Being twenty years old (and unmarried) myself, I don’t have any wisdom on the issue, but I think it may be…

Yeah, I’ve done this one before, but it’s important so I’m doing it again (see The Gospel Rant 3: Some Theology, as well as The Gospel Rant 4: Evangelism and God’s Busted Plays). The themes addressed in this blog will…

Introduction to the Selfie For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a “selfie,” you clearly don’t hang out with many teenage girls. A seflie is a picture you take of yourself on your phone and then text to…

As I was driving home from winter break, that fabulous one-hit wonder song, “What is love? (Baby don’t hurt me)” started playing on the radio. As I jived to the funky techno beat, singing the main chorus as loudly as…

Here we are again, folks—The Gospel Rants have returned! I’ve had this Rant on the backburner for a long time because there’ve been so many other things to write about, but I think it’s enough of a softball for us…

I haven’t blogged in a while, so I wanted to write up a quick post on spiritual disciplines. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor is it meant to say that if you don’t do some of…

  I sat there across the table from him and I could see the pain in his eyes. He tried to smile at me, like everything was okay, but we both knew it wasn’t. That’s the thing about hurt. Even…