{"id":349,"date":"2005-05-24T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T16:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/24\/campus-ministry-at-the-ivies\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:03:36","slug":"campus-ministry-at-the-ivies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/24\/campus-ministry-at-the-ivies","title":{"rendered":"Campus Ministry at the Ivies"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our alumni, Elizabeth, emailed me this fascinating NYT article: On a Christian Mission to the Top<\/a>. It\u2019s an article about ministry at the Ivy League schools focusing on a group called Christian Union<\/a> <\/p>\n

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. There\u2019s a related NPR story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I really appreciate their vision. I\u2019ve often thought that someone ought to establish evangelical ministry centers at the top tier universities, so I\u2019m glad to see that they\u2019re running with it.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this paragraph leapt out at me: <\/p>\n

By the 1970\u2019s, Assemblies churches were sprouting up in affluent suburbs across the country. Recent surveys by Margaret Poloma, a historian at the University of Akron in Ohio, found Assemblies members more educated and better off than the general public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m speechless.<\/p>\n

The Assemblies of God and education are not two concepts that are often linked in the minds of the populace at large (with reason, I might add: I\u2019ve actually heard these words uttered at a ministerial gathering with absolutely no hint of humor, \u201cThe problem with the Assemblies is all this eddikashun.\u201d Moreover, I saw several heads nod in agreement). Perhaps that instance has unfairly tainted my perceptions of the movement as a whole, but I\u2019ve never been particularly impressed with our intellectual prowess in the Assemblies.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, one of our AG ministers in San Francisco is a Harvard grad who lives in a bus and ministers to the homeless. And of my three district officials (bishop-equivalents) one has his doctorate and another just needs to finish his dissertation. A pastor I know in the San Joaquin valley was once nominated for a Pulitzer. Come to think of it, I know lots of sharp, well-educated ministers and even more sharp, well-educated laypeople.<\/p>\n

I just always assumed they were a minority. I should really rethink that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of our alumni, Elizabeth, emailed me this fascinating NYT article: On a Christian Mission to the Top. It\u2019s an article about ministry at the Ivy League schools focusing on a group called Christian Union 4100 camera digital nikon . There\u2019s a related NPR story. I really appreciate their vision. I\u2019ve often thought that someone \u2026 Continue reading \u201cCampus Ministry at the Ivies\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblies-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}