Marko recently shared some notes from a summit for junior high youth pastors led by sociologist Christian Smith. I found the following quote interesting.
• If you could change one thing about youth ministry, what would it be?
CS: If I could change one thing about youth ministers is I would have YM stop calling teens “students”, [...]
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Teens or Students?
Posted in Youth Ministry on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Another Quote from Palmer
Posted in Youth Ministry on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just four pages after reading the previous quote in Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak, I found another quote that I thought really relates well to student ministry.
“My gift as a teacher is the ability to ‘dance’ with my students, to teach them and learn with them through dialogue and interaction. When my students are [...]
A Dilemma
Posted in Youth Ministry on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A quote from Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer:
“Here is another example of violating one’s nature in the name of nobility, an example that shows the larger dangers of false love. Years ago, I heard Dorothy Day speak. Founder of the Catholic Worker movement, her long-term commitment to living among the poor on New [...]
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