C.S. Lewis once wrote “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
An encounter I had recently while staying in Pennsylvania reminded me how true this really is. I had been doing dissertation research in PA earlier this [...]
Entries from January 2008
Pain & Joy in PA
January 25th, 2008 3 Comments
“Stone-Cold Sober” at college
January 11th, 2008 3 Comments
For some time I’ve been aware of “Top 10 Party Colleges” lists, but today the Princeton Review threw me for a loop. They also publish their own Top 20 party schools list, but in the spirit of being fair and balanced, they also publish their own list of “Stone-Cold Sober” schools. Of course the absence [...]
Generation “Mosaic” and Faith: Barna meets Wilberforce
January 7th, 2008 No Comments
Although I’m not an unqualified George Barna fan (his persuasiveness really tanks when he tries to do theology instead of survey research), I do find much of his research on evangelical faith and its outworkings to be helpful. A 2006 study done by his group gets at the heart of why IMPACT 360 (www.impact360.net) was [...]