I was not quite ten years old when I sat on the floor of my parent’s bedroom watching the black and white Motorola television, August 28, 1963.
As we turn the page on another year, and as I consider the landscape of possibilities that lay before us as a community, I am drawn to the writings of a favorite ancient writer of mine…
“Think back to when you were in elementary school or perhaps high school. Who was at the dinner table at Christmas?”
Two news items that caught my attention this past Thanksgiving season are the new federal law in Australia forbidding youth under sixteen from having access to social media and the new book by humanist chaplain at MIT Greg Epstein who argues that “technology has become religion.”
Fifty-two weeks ago I tore out a page from my church bulletin and put it in my Bible.
When David Hansen’s thoughtful volume on pastoral ministry came out in 1994, my wife, Nancy, read it and said it should be required reading for every pastor.
I genuinely love to attend worship. In my position at Gordon-Conwell I have the opportunity to attend many types of Christian worship services.
I had prayed in the morning (with two friends) that God would open a space and time for me to share the gospel with someone as I traveled.
“Hey, can I sit down here for a few moments?”
Now I am a seminary president and, oddly enough, I also need to get ready for a new school year . . . How?