Do you remember what it felt like to walk the hallways of high school between classes or sit at the lunch table? Hallways and lunch rooms were the primary stages for social engagement in high school in years past. Sure, you talked with your peers in class, but most of the time you were paying …
Continue...What is social media doing to our ability to communicate with kindness, clarity and depth? Should social media be seen as a redeemable form of communication, or is it a medium that is not meant to hold the weight of discourse? Can heavy matters of faith even be discussed on social media, or is the …
Continue...I am an inherently critical person. I criticize myself. I criticize my friends. I criticize the weather. I criticize people on the Internet. I’m the Roger Ebert of life in general. The nicest fake neighbor I ever had A few weeks ago, it was Fred Rogers’ 87th birthday. Well, it would have been, but Mr. …
Continue...Twitter, Facebook, the comment sections of blog posts and YouTube videos, and all sorts of Internet meeting places have turned into nothing more than virtual gladiator arenas in which we fight to the death about stuff we forget about the next day. It’s easy to get caught up in angry Internet discussions. But I think …
Continue...It’s true. Millennials aren’t streaming into churches like their parents and grandparents did years before them. Evangelicalism has lost its cultural chic and the cost of discipleship has increased, even if only slightly, for the American Evangelical. These cultural changes, plus a number of other tendencies among Millennials has caused 86 percent of Millennials to claim …
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