There’s an article on campus ministry up on Religion Journal right now: Campus Ministries Look for New Methods to Reach America’s Secular Generation.
Nothing really new, but a pretty decent overview of today’s students.
disciple, husband, father, college minister
There’s an article on campus ministry up on Religion Journal right now: Campus Ministries Look for New Methods to Reach America’s Secular Generation.
Nothing really new, but a pretty decent overview of today’s students.
As a service to my friends and family, I gladly provide the following birthday wishlists:
Glen’s Amazon Wishlist (mostly books, although some other stuff is there as well)
Glen’s General Wishlist (stuff not for sale on Amazon)
As always, these are just my everyday “I want to get these someday” lists. They haven’t been especially concocted for my birthday or anything. So some things might seem odd. Or even bizarre.
The Spirituality In Higher Education project has released a new report for the 2004–2005 school year.
Some highlights (and my thoughts):
80% of college students attended a religious service within the last year.
MY THOUGHT: if they’re not coming back to the church it’s not out of ignorance–they don’t like what they see.
50% of students are “seeking” “conflicted” or “doubting” when it comes to their faith.
MY THOUGHT: that’s half my audience–is my ministry structured accordingly?
26% of freshmen consider themselves born again.
MY THOUGHT: they don’t know what that phrase means 😉
There’s a very readable article, Religiosity Rising On Campus, that covers the same data as in the official report.
Paula just found out that our friend Lisa is returning to Stanford to pursue her Ph.D. next year.
Lisa graduated a few years ago and we’ve sorely missed her. It’s going to be great to have her back on the Farm again. Paula was almost in tears (with joy) when she called to let me know.
Paula has just informed me that we have completely paid for Dana, and she can no longer be repossessed by the hospital.
She’s entirely our problem now.
Incidentally, she got mad at me the other day and began waving “bye-bye” at me to get me to go away. That was pretty cute.