Month: October 2010

Duffy Robbins raises some good questions about adolescence in youth ministry. Obsessed with cool. Trendy. Impulsive. Self-focused. Caught up in the moment. Probably sounds like a description of some of the kids in your youth group.Actually, um…well…this is not an article about youth culture or the world of today’s teenagers. This is an article about…

Found a site dedicated to small youth groups. Most people don’t realize that the average youth group in America falls into this category. Might have some useful stuff… http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/

I know it’s uncouth to say, “I told you so,” but in this case I did.Three years ago, in my book Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — And Doesn’t, I described the United States as a nation of religious illiterates. Though Americans are deeply religious, I argued, they know very little about…

I mentioned recently at our Fusion meeting about a challenge that Andy Morgan mentioned whilst teaching our apprentices. It was one of two actually and I got him to write them down for you… In an attempt to channel the competitive nature of teens I devised two challenges which I have used with various youth…

Not all that long ago I heard a priest declare in his sermon that the concept of inerrancy was relatively new, dating back to the time of the Scopes Monkey Trial. I approached him afterward and told him I thought that was a strange assertion because I had read the word used in theological writing…