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More than 125 youth workers at Open Boston
More than 125 youth workers gathered at Gordon College on Saturday, February 2 for Open Boston. An initiative of The Youth Cartel, Open Boston brought together more than 20 speakers to lead sessions on topics ranging from student leadership and youth ministry innovation, to soul care and strategic relationship building. Interactive sessions enabled mutual collaboration throughout the day, … Continue reading
Derrida, Caputo, and David Walk Into a Psalm
Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:2 The heading of Psalm 51 gives its setting: “When the prophet Nathan came to [David] after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.” The Hebrew text is more explicit in its description of David’s adulterous act in the Psalm heading. David had had … Continue reading
A Prayer for Difference amidst Unity, and Unity amidst Difference
Does race matter? Is ethnicity important? How do cultural backgrounds affect our everyday lives? This week at Gordon College we have a special emphasis week, BEYOND COLORBLIND: BEYOND COLORBLIND is a focus week to help start new conversations about race and culture on campus. We hope the lectures and discussions help us consider how our racial … Continue reading
A prayer for the first day of school
This semester is the first day of classes at Gordon. This morning in chapel I led us in a responsive prayer, offering thanksgiving and petition to God at the start of a new semester. I offered the prayer in italics, then we all as one congregation read the bold responses. For the start of a … Continue reading
I’m Speaking at Open Boston in February on Student Worship Leaders
In a couple of weeks I’ll be one of a group of speakers at a youth ministry event called Open Boston. It’s February 2 and takes place at Gordon College. From Open’s What to Expect page: The content of sessions is firmly focused on ideas, concepts, and best practices for developing a youth ministry for … Continue reading
Day of Prayer
Here’s part of a writeup I did on our Day of Prayer that took place last week: In the evening we worshiped again as one in the chapel with a congregational expression of the Psalms through song. From a lone voice in the darkness expressing the cries of the Psalmist in Psalm 130, to voices … Continue reading
Rocks cry out on the Day of Prayer
What a great way spend a day this Tuesday! We had our annual Day of Prayer at Gordon College. (Here is the schedule of events for the day.) As I wrote before, I’m struck by how the Day of Prayer is a microcosm of an important aspect the school’s life together: we are one and we are many. There … Continue reading
SEEK: Day of Prayer
Tomorrow (Tuesday) at Gordon College is the Day of Prayer. Here is the schedule for the day. We’ve been working hard in preparation for this day, and I’m excited now that it’s here at last. Day of Prayer at Gordon is a dedicated day–no classes or regularly scheduled events–where we remind ourselves of who we are in Christ: a … Continue reading
A wife for Jesus?
Did Jesus have a wife? Does it matter? In the last two days I’ve seen about 50 Facebook status updates from friends and groups I follow, each with their own take on the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” papyrus that Harvard Professor Karen L. King recently announced. (Nerdy grammatical excursus: King has titled the papyrus with Jesus’s, … Continue reading
Facebook, Twitter, or texting during class?
A College of William and Mary Professor shares some observations about college students’ use of technology in class and how she deals with it. Some of the comments are as worth reading as the article is. An excerpt: There’s quantitative support for concern about concentration in the classroom. One study showed that, on average, students at the … Continue reading
