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Two Questions: Andrew Root
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Church Times
Love for Our Children in the Time of Covid-19 WHEN my latest book was published last month, my publisher and I thought that its title — The End of Youth Ministry? — would be provocative enough to draw attention. We never thought that it would be prophetic. Now, a few weeks into the pandemic, for most congregations…
A New Generation Demands New Categories for Theology and Ministry
Lily Allen is a mostly unknown name in the United States, but in the UK she is ubiquitous. Her picture is plastered all over the daily papers, her pop songs blare from the radio, and gossip of her escapades fill the tabloids. Lily Allen is one the UK’s great paparazzi magnets because she is one…
A Call to See and Be Near
An infected person with a glowing green hand touches others who then contract glowing green hands, and who each pass along the glowing green infection to another and then another. This is often how we believe suffering operates. We implicitly assume it’s passed on like an infection, like the green hand. Youth ministry has historically…
Being a pastor within the secular frame means teaching people how to pray
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…
