Education
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Our teens are overcommitted. Here’s Why.
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4 min read
Mental health, anxiety, depression. Teens are facing more challenges than ever. Because we made it this way.
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Racism
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4 min read
Episode 47 of the Make Saints podcast
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(Extra) Curricular
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4 min read
We offer our high school students a variety of extra-curricular activities. But little about it is truly optional.
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Adult Formation
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9 min read
A friend recently said that the church is always 10 years behind. When he said this, I nodded as I thought through all the ways we are behind the world. Technology, marketing, human rights, anti-institutionalism, shifting political landscapes, family trends including divorce rates, break-ups, and coupling outside of marriage. I frequently point out that many of…
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Sunday School
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6 min read
If you talk to certain people, you would get the impression that children were never in church. That church isn’t really for them, anyway. It’s for adults. Kids need to learn about church before they can be in church, they argue. This certainly is not true. Sunday School was only created at the end of…
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Sermon as Teaching
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7 min read
My Dad’s a good preacher. He isn’t the lift the roof off the rafters type. Nor is he egg-heady with scattered references to German theologians. And he isn’t a daily living preacher, either. He doesn’t do genre. He does story and he tries to make sense of the gospel and what people are dealing with…