Posts Tagged ‘community’
Welcoming young adults into church/community
Rachel Beveridge, in a helpful article articulating some of the reasons she’s seen young adults leave the church, notes that her generation (millennials) “know that we have to be vulnerable in order to have authentic connection.” Because of this, “when conversations at church or any other community are superficial, sometimes millennials choose to leave. But…
Read MoreLoving the grad student in your life
Christian Courier recently published an article by Meghan Kort on how to love the grad student in your life. She begins by explaining a bit about the mental health challenges of grad school and then provides wisdom about “how churches, families, and friends can show more love when we encounter stressed-out grad students in our lives.…
Read MoreAre our big spiritual questions intellectual or something else?
Kerry Egan, in her book On living describes the big spiritual questions of human existence as relating primarily to community. She argues: “We don’t live our lives in our heads, in theology and theories. We live our lives in our families: the families we are born into, the families we create, the families we make through the…
Read MoreSaturday Nights~Community(Enacted)
Last fall at CEF, we started the “Animate” group. After our weekly dinners on Saturday nights, we spent time discussing the idea of “community”. We began to ask questions about community: What is community? Why is it so elusive? How do we find, foster, and build community? As a group we began to consider these…
Read MoreBasketball Bash
When you go to a Big 10 school, it’s imperative that you attend some basketball games. When Kory told me there were some extra tickets for the game on January 31, I jumped at the opportunity to go with CEF. Not only did I enjoy the game, but it was great getting to know others…
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