Before we can learn anything from Jonathan Edwards, we first need to humble ourselves as he did on that fateful day in 1734, when he finally admitted that “business as usual” was failing his students.
Do America’s Colleges Need Revival?
Adult Films: Why Oscars Ignore Movies About Millennials, by John Hanlon
SHORT TERM 12, THE SPECTACULAR NOW, and THE WAY, WAY BACK received as high or higher critical ratings than any of this year’s best picture nominees. So why weren’t any of them nominated?
Ponce de León on Steroids: What does Christian maturity look like in a youth-worshiping culture? by John Ortberg
A response to Thomas E. Bergler’s The Juvenilization of American Christianity Because we increasingly live in a post-Christian culture, any church leader must seek to discover how to contextualize the gospel to our culture. And our culture is a youth-worshiping, Justin…
The Juvenilization of American Christianity, by Thomas E. Bergler, PhD
Are we all adolescents now? by Thomas E. Bergler The house lights go down. Spinning, multicolored lights sweep the auditorium. A rock band launches into a rousing opening song. “Ignore everyone else, this time is just about you and Jesus,” proclaims…
Four More (BIG) Reasons Young Adults Quit Church, by Christian Piatt
Part 5 in series A Place of Our Own: How Millennials Who Have Given Up on “Church” are Redefining Faith and Re-engaging Community by Christian Piatt There has been a surprisingly positive response to the article I published yesterday: “Seven Reasons Why…
Young Adults Fleeing Churches That Embrace Partisan Politics, by Jonathan Merritt
The dramatic generational shift away from the church is primarily in reaction to the religious right By Jonathan Merritt Religious pollsters and demographers have long warned that young people were leaving churches in alarming numbers. According to a much talked about…
Teen Role Models: Who They Are, Why They Matter, by David Kinnaman
Part of ongoing series: Paparazzi in the Hands of an Angry God: Servant Leadership in an Age of Self-Promotion. (Note please pray for David, Dan Allender and I as we speak to the National Student Leaders Network in Orlando later this…