(this will appear in the next issue of the Jubilate Deo) It’s amazing what fun we can have with awkward headlines! Without any clarifiers we don’t know where the emphasis belongs. This results in multiple possible meanings, which can be humorous. What does that have to do with youth ministers? Simple. Without the right emphasis,…

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

White Horse Inn Blog has an interview of sorts with Cameron Cole from Cathedral Church of the Advent and host of the Rooted Conference coming up in August. Worth reading HERE A sample… Three words I uphold in effective student ministry are truth, love, and Spirit. By truth, I mean that students need to hear…

From Tim Keller’s new material “Gospel in Life” a DVD curriculum comes this great comparision (by way of Buzzard Blog)

A bit of background to the previous post… THE controversial trial of secular ethics classes has ”decimated” Protestant scripture classes in the 10 NSW schools where it has been introduced as an alternative for non-religious children, with the classes losing about 47 per cent of enrolled students. The figure was calculated by the Sydney Anglican…

Graham Stanton teaches youth ministry in the Diocese of Sydney and has an item on the Sydney Anglicans site that caught my eye. I don’t know the background to it fully but it seems that doing religious education in schools (something required by the government in the UK I know and perhaps in Australia as…

Phillip Jensen has some great thoughts on how we teach others to read the Bible… But what is the aim of teaching the Bible? Much of secular learning today aims at becoming qualified for acceptance in society or acquiring knowledge as an end in itself. However, neither of these is a sufficient aim for teaching…

A great reminder of a simple truth that affects our everyday relationships… The next time you’re sure someone is angry with you, perhaps it’s worth considering that you might be mistaken. Perhaps that customer or prospect or boss has better things to do than being angry with you. Each of us has a huge agenda,…

For those who appreciate old hymns set in new music (slightly updated music in some cases) “Page CXVI” has released a second project of 7 Hymns. It can be purchased for download or CD on their website. Currently, they are giving away their first Hymns Project free for a week.http://pagecxvi.bkstageshare.com/hymns/

It’s my conviction that there are several “non-truths” out there that the younger generation is buying and clinging to. One of them is the idea of a pluralism that is impossible. I was glad to read that someone in the academic world is willing to speak out to the issue that such pluralism actually makes…