With Jubilee just a little more than 24 hours away, it’s easy to say, “Ready or not, it’s here!” However, in these final hours, there are still some things we can consider as we plan to make the most of our Jubilee experience.
Here’s a top ten list of things to do to prepare. Most of [...]

Not too long ago Derek Melleby wrote a great blog post on Jim Belcher’s Deep Church. We are so excited that Jim is going to be Jubilee 2010 this weekend in Pittsburgh. We are also excited to let you know about an amazing discount to download the audio book of Jim Belcher’s Deep Church [...]

It’s coming! It’s really coming once again!
I don’t actually  mean Jubilee (though I’m so excited for Friday!). I mean Lent.
For Western Christians, the Lenten season begins this Wednesday – Ash Wednesday. (Our Eastern Orthodox brethren begin celebrating the Great Lent today, though this year we celebrate Easter – Pascha for them – on the same [...]

I’m an NFL fan, but this season I watched a handful of college games. During one particular Louisiana State University match-up, a somewhat inexperienced quarterback looked down field but couldn’t find any receivers. Pass rushers closed in and forced him to scramble. After the fruitless play ended, the commentator said, “Once he began to scramble, [...]

People sometimes ask me why I love the Jubilee Conference so much. It liberates my imagination, I often tell them. What? It liberates my imagination. It helps me to gain a vision for what it might look like if the Kingdom really did come on Earth as it is in Heaven. And that’s what we [...]

I’m teaching research writing this semester, and part of that class is to introduce students to what it means to be part of the scholarly community. It’s kind of hard to explain what that means, especially to students who are in their first year of college. The distinction between high school and college is still [...]

One curse of the twenty-something (and I can say this candidly because I still have three months till I’m thirty) is that we have strong opinions about life (well, about almost everything really), but we lack the experiences that truly test the realities we assert. We make great claims (often based on things we’ve read [...]

It bears repeating that the CCO’s annual Jubilee conference draws its name from the important sabbath theme in Deuteronomy and, most clearly, Leviticus 25, where every fifty years—on the day of atonement, when sins are forgiven—the Jewish people were to enact social legislation that created a vastly renewed social order. From prison reform to [...]