Similarly to allowing students to doubt (part 2 of this series), we ought also to allow students to discover truth on their own. I am not saying that we allow them to discover their own truth. Rather, I am saying that we allow them to come into truth via their own understanding and [...]
Archive for June, 2008
5 ‘Dangerous’ Things, Part 3
Posted: 29th June 2008 by Chris in Spirituality, Theology, Youth Ministry1
A few months ago I posted re: my son’s recently identified hearing loss. You can read the post HERE.
Thanks to all of you who have prayed for him! I am happy to say that Luke is doing just fine. He is adjusting well. I am very proud of him. He [...]
Remember the phrase, “There are no dumb questions?” When we were kids teachers, parents, church workers, tutors, coaches, etc. wanted us to ask questions. Emphasis was put on the “no dumb” in the phrase above which means that the “there are questions” part of the phrase above was essentially a given. So, [...]
Tony Myles is a great friend. I met him a few years ago when he was discovering what God had next for him and we were discussing some possible roles with Sonlife. It never worked for him to come on our staff but Tony and I have done some writing together on a [...]
I have decided to hold off on posting my follow up thoughts to the “Five Dangerous Things” post (click HERE) for a couple more days. Reason being, I have decided to include Doug Jones over at Perigrinatio to post along side of my thoughts hopefully giving our fellow readers more to think about.
Let this [...]
“Facts and reason alone do not stand a chance against a story because both depend on story for their power. It is naive to think one has arrived at one’s views and values solely through unbiased consideration of objective data. Data are never objective because they are always gathered by story-breathing human subjects. [...]
I am a fan of Gever Tulley. Gever is a brilliant guy. He is a computer scientist by trade but is the founder of The Tinkering School, a summer program that helps kids build the things that they think about and dream up.
I first learned about Gever Tulley through TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. [...]
Yesterday I spent the morning over at Youthfront South (our HS camp) training our college staff (some of them pictured below) in the art of storytelling and facilitating conversations. Much of what I have come to understand about the art of storytelling has come from Mike and Caesar over at Echo The Story.
Originally we [...]
For over 9 months I have been commuting from Chicago, where I currently live, to Kansas City where I work at Youthfront. With each passing trip I have gotten more and more eager for today – the first day of camp.
We have about 230 middle school students with us from mostly the greater Kansas [...]