I’ve found a new hobby. I have found absolute delight in digging up older books on youth ministry – books from the 70’s and 80’s. Much of what I find I purchase for a couple of bucks from some obscure website and they’re usually shipped from places in the world I can only wish I [...]
Archive for the ‘Theology’ Category
Youth Ministry & The Task of Culture Shaping
Posted: 5th June 2009 by Chris in Church, Spirituality, Theology, Youth Ministry8
Youth Min. and Transformative Environments
Posted: 2nd April 2009 by Chris in Theology, Training, Youth MinistryI spent this past weekend in San Antonio, TX with some new friends at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and a few other churches within the Diocese of West Texas. I led several conversations for a couple dozens students around mission, community and identity formation – some of the very things we’ve recently been discussing on [...]
Youth Ministry and Community
Posted: 2nd April 2009 by Chris in Spirituality, Theology, Youth MinistryIt wasn’t until I was nearly half a dozen years into vocational youth ministry that I began to discover that I couldn’t will a sense of community. As hard as I worked to create an environment of invitation, generosity, hope, love, hospitality, honesty, shared learning, etc., I discovered that community isn’t developed out of a [...]
I’ve been guest blogging over at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed Blog on Thursday mornings. You can read today’s post and enter into some great conversation on youth ministry and evangelism here: http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/2009/03/youth-and-evangelism-chris-fol.html
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been in some terrific conversations about youth ministry and evangelism. One youth worker from a [...]
I’m certain that many of the people engaged in youth ministry think regularly about the mission and work before them. Our unsettled culture and its itinerant nature require ongoing strategic thought and practice.
In order to avoid being characterized by what Nietzsche referred to as the “fundamental form of stupidity” (forgetting what you were trying to [...]
Chasing Francis by Ian Cron
Posted: 14th February 2009 by Chris in Books, Church, Spirituality, TheologyAround the office at Youthfront there are a few legendary stories of people who have either been on staff or have merely stopped in a time or two over the years for a meeting or an inspirational talk or to partner in an event, say a prayer, etc.
I think most of the stories I hear [...]
Gina, my wife, was given the gift of a subscription to Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life some time ago. When the bi-monthly issues arrive in the mail each time I am quick to snatch them up as if they were a gift to me.
It usually takes me at least a month or [...]
Prelude 2009
Posted: 3rd February 2009 by Chris in Books, Events, Theology, Training, Youth MinistryLast year Mike King and I hosted the first of what we hope becomes many micro-conferences called, Prelude. There was about 50 youth workers or so that gathered at our Youthfront Camp South to dialogue around Andrew Root’s book entitled, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and Sarah Arthur’s book entitled, The God-Hungry Imagination. It was a [...]
5 ‘Dangerous’ Things, Part 3
Posted: 29th June 2008 by Chris in Spirituality, Theology, Youth MinistrySimilarly 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 [...]
Are you familiar with Barefoot Publishing?
Posted: 19th March 2008 by Chris in Books, Theology, Youth MinistryWe have (Youthfront/Sonlife) been doing some work with Barefoot Publishing. Barefoot is what I (a non-expert in the pub world!) would call an emerging publisher. They have been around for a while but I think some of their most recent products have really helped them emerge from being viewed as an average publisher [...]