Several of my students have asked me what kind of answers I received to my most recent post, Wanted: Wisdom for Soon-To-Be College Grads Facing an Uncertain Future. While they have been portrayed in the media as overly entitled trophy kids raised by overly doting helicopter parents the activism this generation showed by the around the Obama campaign has led…

Less than 50 days until graduation and my undergraduate college students are starting to get a little nervous. Some know where they are going when they leave school – graduate school or a job offer on the heels of an internship. But many of these intelligent, well-qualified and hard-working students are wondering how and when…

Have you ever wondered if you would do it? If – with full knowledge that you would be betrayed and denied by your friends; stripped of everything you own; beaten and taunted; and, finally, put to death in a brutal and humiliating way – you’d have straddled the back of that donkey and ridden into…

The second part of Leonard Sweet‘s new book, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church, focuses on the “R” in what Sweet calls the “MRI” manifestation of faith (where “M” is Missional, “R” is Relational and “I” is Incarnational. Click here for excerpts from Part 1: The Missional Life. In Part 2 Sweet writes: With…

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