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April 22, 2020
Jonathan Edwards and Pastoring Those Who Don’t Give a Damn
You’d be shocked too if your name appeared in the story of a famous American. I’ve never assumed that I came from a great line of people. Never once did I even dream that I was a Kennedy … or even a Kardashian. Because of this lack of imagination, I’ve never really had the sense that my name implicated me in either honor or derision. I’ve always assumed that I’m responsible for my own name. Read More here
April 17, 2020
Church Times
Love for Our Children in the Time of Covid-19
WHEN my latest book was published last month, my publisher and I thought that its title — The End of Youth Ministry? — would be provocative enough to draw attention. We never thought that it would be prophetic.
Now, a few weeks into the pandemic, for most congregations and para-church organisations, youth ministry has, indeed, ended — at least, it has ended in all the ways that we have always done youth ministry (not being allowed to gather in groups larger than ten will do that).
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April 13, 2020
Controlled Chaos
Episode 0108 Instagram Live with Andrew Root and Justin Herman
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March 25, 2020
March 20, 2020
Youth Ministry isn’t About Fun
I am sitting in a nondescript church fellowship hall, attending a gathering of the church’s youth group. Over the next hour, three people—a man in his fifties, a woman in her early thirties, a boy in tenth grade—get up and tell stories. Their stories all are in response to the same text—Matthew 19:16–30, the story of the rich young ruler—and the same prompt, “Tell about a time when the good was a difficult or confusing surprise.” Read the rest
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