The Blessing of Community

After last year’s annual Rooted conference, one youth minister in attendance wrote Rooted’s chairman about his experience: “Cameron, Thanks again for all that you do with Rooted.  It was truly a blessing to take part in this year’s…

Modest Power

“Modesty” has become a dirty word to a postmodern audience, conjuring up images of sexually-repressed, prudish religious folk who don’t know how to have fun. We youth workers start talking about modesty, and immediately youth group girls everywhere cringe…

Intellectual Modesty

If you spend much time watching CNN, Fox News or MSNBC, you’ll notice that people seem to regularly depend on their personality, rather than sound reasoning and facts, to give authority to their words.  Proof of their convictions seems…

Rooted Recommends: Lament for a Son

I discovered Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Lament for a Son through a pastor/friend.  He regularly gave copies away. “How many times have you read this?” I asked him.  Reaching for the copy that would become mine, this pastor-of-pastors replied, “After twenty years, I’ve…

Rooted Recommends: Tyranny of the Urgent

It took me just 20 minutes to read Tyranny of the Urgent by Charles E. Hummel. That means that unless I am brief in this article, you could read most of the book by the time you finish reading my…

What’s Rooted’s Conference All About?

Rooted offers a unique, simple conference in the world of ministry to youth. Rooted begins with the Gospel as the starting point and considers all matters in youth ministry and youth culture from that axis. These conferences feature…