Join us for a Zoom webinar entitled “Re-Envisioning Summer Mission Trips in Light of COVID-19” next Thursday, May 21 at 12:00 CST. Rooted Staff and Steering Committee member Chelsea Kingston Erickson will be joined by Rooted Steering Committee emeriti, Rebecca Heck and…
One of our students’ greatest fears is the idea of being exposed. Our students pride themselves on their ability to know what to do, how to respond, and to have it all together. For many, their own personal…
Activities – cancelled. Vacations – cancelled. Even simple dinner parties with friends – cancelled. With COVID-19 continuing to dominate our headlines and our minds, parents have found themselves with more time with their children. Families are riding out…
If you own a computer, you have likely experienced that tense moment when, unexpectedly, everything freezes up and you are forced into a restart. You can do nothing – except go into panic mode – as you face…
As circumstances surrounding the pandemic continue to change from week to week, we asked Rooted writers to share their developing plans for summer service experiences with students. We hope these responses will be helpful to you as you…
Last October when I wrote an article to parents of seniors, I had no idea March 13 would be my son’s last day of high school, that he would finish the year alone, online, in my den, wearing…
I don’t know about you, but I think I’ve been in denial about what COVID-19 means as this year’s seniors transition out of our youth ministries. I have been grieving with them over canceled proms and graduations, the…
Teenagers have the clearest sense of the way the world should be. They are perhaps most naturally equipped to pray with righteous anger – and they need to pray angry.
Michael Kruger, president of Reformed Theological Seminary, thoughtfully blogged about the cultural phenomenon of “You Do You” and how it fails us in moments such as these. Kruger writes, “‘You do you’ embodies our culture’s commitment to personal fulfillment, self-actualization, and the…
