Mikey Lynch has written this response to my article about increasing our participation in the campus. I’ve already fleshed out a few things in these four posts, and there are a bunch of other previous posts on the topic. I reckon Mikey and I are treading the same ground, namely […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
A couple of weeks ago, the national office interviewed six prospective staff for Tanzania Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Ushirika wa Wanafunzi wa Injili wa Tanzania). It’s a wonderful chance to hear stories of God’s work and get a taste of the impact of TAFES nationwide. The candidates come having had […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Below is the outline of a campus ministry resource I’ve been working on for Go Conference 2016. One of the reasons for this particular resource is the need to move people beyond the commonplace idea that evangelism means standing and preaching. In what follows I’m therefore using evangelism as an […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Engaging the university (see all posts) refers to moving campus ministries beyond the pietistic, evangelistic, and apologetic realms into new territory: participation and dialogue. I have not yet asked in detail why we might want more of this, or what motivations we might have for trying to move in that […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
A recent campus ministry conference here featured a theology seminar on christology. The speaker talked about the incarnate Christ, the post-incarnate Christ, and most of all, the pre-incarnate Christ — the personal appearance of the Son of God in the Old Testament. The session was called ‘the doctrine of Christ’, […]
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes