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Faithonomics
Monday, March 5th, 2007Having spent some time at a congregation that evolved into a “name-it-and-claim-it” church in the late 80s, I was skeptical of Pastor Daniel Hill’s series title “Faithonomics” at River City Community Church on Sunday. But given his participation in CCDA and UYWI I figured some slack was due. And it was! Pastor Daniel gave an [...]
Viva la revolution! My report from Square One
Monday, February 28th, 2005787 youth leaders converged on the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown for the Square One breakfast Saturday morning. Evangelistically speaking, that’s eight hundred. Youth leaders. From the New York metro area. There are 298 public high schools and alternative high school programs in the five boroughs. Hmm. 800 youth leaders. 300 high schools. Those schools are [...]
Billy Graham wants you
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005Friends and youth ministry colleagues: Get real for a second. Your youth are dying. Your neighborhood youth are dying even faster. Your church wants you to reach them. Your God called you to reach them. But you need help. So do I. This June a historic opportunity to reach your kids and mine, our city [...]
What Does it Mean to be Latino?
Monday, January 31st, 2005My dad goofs on me because I claim to be Latino. He’s got a point, I guess, because (a) I don’t speak Spanish (well), (b) I look like a white boy, and (c) his wife, my mother, is about as northern European as Americans come — her parents both immigrated to the States from Norway. [...]
What Language is American?
Monday, January 31st, 2005Saturday evening I was bouncing back and forth between the Michael Jackson special (see post above) on VH1 and a PBS documentary called “Do You Speak American?” The documentary explored American dialects from Boston to El Paso and Nashville to LA and asked fundamental questions about language, identity, and cultural norms and expectations. On Sunday [...]