In my years of working with college students–from freshmen to seniors–at least one thing is clear: they usually don’t know what to do with their leisure time. If they’re not in class or working on a paper, then they’re probably plugged in to their ipods, or perhaps chatting or gaming on the internet. Maybe even a [...]
Entries from December 2006
Leisure = Entertainment?
December 19th, 2006 No Comments
Teen Commits Suicide After Parents Threaten To Punish Over Grades
December 14th, 2006 2 Comments
NBC 10 in Philly reports:
The father of the 16-year-old who killed himself inside his high school Tuesday over a less-than-satisfactory report card urged students at a candlelight vigil to listen to troubled classmates. His son, Shane Halligan, died after he put what appeared to be an AK-47 to his chin and pulled the trigger in [...]
Chick-fil-A & Leadership
December 10th, 2006 No Comments
This morning a colleague and I took two IMPACT 360 students (www.impact360.net) to the corporate headquarters of Chick-fil-A, Inc. (http://www.chickfila.com/home.asp) in Atlanta in order to put some final touches on a leadership curriculum that the Chick-fil-A (CFA) leadership experts will be implementing for our students this spring. The IMPACT 360 students will have the rare opportunity of [...]
Choosing Church?
December 6th, 2006 No Comments
From the Rev. Dr. J. Ligon Duncan’s recent blogpost at: http://blog.togetherforthegospel.org/ (for those of you who are fans of Lig Duncan, Mark Dever, Al Mohler or C.J. Mahaney, you’ll love this blog…all four interact with each other on this one!).
Belonging to the Church
by lduncan
“The question whether or not to join the church or belong to the [...]