This article is part of a series that looks at how we address difficult or confusing pieces of scripture with young people. Read other articles in this series here. Youth ministers and leaders tend to avoid the book…
Each month we compile a Top 10 List for the Rooted community (made up of both parents and youth leaders). This list represents ten articles we believe will encourage and equip you to continue in your ministry to…
Parents and Pastors: We Cannot Afford to Stay Silent to Our Teens By Kendal Conner As the tragic events of our nation and world have unfolded over the past few months, I have wrestled with this question: “How…
This article is part of a series that looks at how we address difficult or confusing pieces of scripture with young people. Read the last articles in the series here. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined…
Dear Fellow Youth Worker, Let your delight show. I mean it. Be unabashedly, unreservedly excited about your students at every moment. Don’t hide your love. Don’t hold it back. Don’t keep it within the bounds of what is…
One night at the beginning of the summer, my college-bound daughter was home without plans. Her friends were either out of town or working. She was bored. Now I could think of several things she could use the time for – you know,…
Rethinking God’s nature is a dangerous, but exciting thing. What if we’ve misunderstood what it means for God to be sovereign and omniscient? This is a provocative question, and one that is increasingly being asked among theology professors…
Our nation is reeling in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two African American men at the hands of police, and subsequent sniper attacks by black men that killed at least eight white police officers in a…
Dear Parent, Right off the bat let me confess I am not a parent, nor do I profess to have any idea what it feels like to be one. However, in my role as a youth worker I…
