Media, government leaders, and adults have all expressed a great deal of frustration with the young people’s lack of compliance to social distancing during the Coronavirus Crisis. States shut down their beaches after pictures surfaced of college-age spring-breakers…
In Christian teaching we often mix up the idea of imperatives and indicatives—commands and truths. Some of us think that imperatives threaten our freedom. Others love these commands, but for the wrong reasons, thinking that if we keep…
To submit, according to Merriam- Webster, is to “yield to governance or authority” or “to yield oneself to the authority or will of another.” I could talk how difficult it is for a self-centered toddler or teenager to…
Many years ago, I staged a one-girl protest on the athletic field at my elementary school. At the tender age of six, I was keenly aware of how short I was compared to my classmates, and footraces were…
In this series, “Secular Wisdom from the Movies,” we hope to offer student leaders a resource – whether for summer programming or just regular teaching. So often we overlook biblical insight from the secular world. The movies in…
“Follow me,” Jesus told him. Mark 1:17 Training. There has always been a part of me that was very attracted to the ascetic life. I’ve been fascinated by the desert fathers and their counter-cultural practices and I admire…
