I’m a Decent Youth Minister, an Even Worse Parent

This is the sixth piece in our ongoing series, “Confessions of a Struggling Youth Minister.” While student ministry is often extremely edifying and even a barrel of laughs, it can also be isolating, discouraging, and totally exhausting. Our…

Failure: The Only Option

My whole life, all I have wanted to be was a basketball player.  My parents have a picture of me as a  two-year-old dribbling a basketball nearly the size of my chubby toddler frame while running down a…