Youth Ministry Doesn't Exist
Originally Written for Immerse Journal
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Originally Written for Immerse Journal
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This week on the Beardcast we sat down with Andrew Root to talk about his latest When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation listen here
Episode 13: The End of Youth Ministry One of the many things heightened in a life restricted by COVID-19 is the already-present concept of doubt within ministry. Perhaps it already had a strong presence before pandemic life for you, but with limited methods and the general loss of intimate gatherings, it probably feels overwhelming. Dr….
Andrew Root, The Congregation and Pastor in a Secular Age Many congregations felt like they were running out of time to make a positive change before the pandemic. However, now that time has been sped up by a globally-altering experience. That pressure and stress level is unhealthy for the church, let alone the vocational staff often…
It’s rare that a cutting-edge scientific research project needs a person in a gorilla suit, but so it was for Daniel Simons’s experiment in attention blindness. Simons, who teaches at the University of Illinois, is a researcher in a field of psychology called visual cognition. His best-known experiment—which can be seen on YouTube—is popularly called…
Secular Mysticisms – A Conversation with Andrew Root Depending on the person using them today, words like ‘secular’ and ‘secularism’ tend to be proclamations of triumph or cries of alarm. But for thinkers like Jacques Ellul and Charles Taylor, more measured and contemplative approaches to whatever secularism is and does are required to get a…