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[serialposts]“I’ve got good news and bad news,” I announced to the fifteen or so members of my church’s high school youth group. “The good news is I brought cookies. The bad news is I need help with my homework. I’ve been asked to write a blog post about this reason...
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[serialposts] Is leaving the church the same thing as leaving God? Just days ago, I received this text message from a teenager struggling with finding Christian community. God is important to her. She's a young woman with faith much stronger than many adults. And yet...
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[serialposts]“God, why is the sky blue?” I was eighteen when I finally asked Him; not relying on the answers that I was taught all my life in school. His reply ended up being more deeply touching and radical than anything I’d ever heard, and, from that moment on, I...
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[serialposts] Reason #2 – Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow. A second reason that young people depart church as young adults is that something is lacking in their experience of church. One-third said “church is boring” (31%)....
[serialposts]the back story, my story, and his story (about why young...
Three out of five. That's what the research shows. According to Barna Group,...
[serialposts]I'm standing in a remote village in Haiti on the shore of the...
Okay, I really have to do this. I ran to the bookstore today and yes (on a...
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