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 [...]

In high school I read a novel to impress a girl. It worked, I think. We’ve been married for almost nine years. The novel was A Time to Kill by John Grisham. I was never much of a reader growing up, but then I was given a new motivation: a beautiful girl mentioned that A [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard it said that your time in college should be about learning to ask the right questions, not necessarily a time to find the right answers. While I do think there is a time for settling in on answers to big questions, I also like the main thrust of that statement. College is [...]

Over the years I have collected quotations related to Advent and Christmas. This morning I took some time to read and reflect and I have some favorites to share. Maybe you have a favorite quote related to the first and second coming of Jesus that you would like to share as well.
“Waiting patiently in expectation [...]

Jubilee 2010 speaker Jim Belcher’s life was radically changed in college. He had grown up in the church and wanted to honor God with his life. For Jim, like many of us who grew up around Christianity, he understood “salvation” as being primarily personal—being saved from sins and living morally for God. A life following [...]

John Perkins is one of my heroes and I’m excited that he will be a speaker at Jubilee this year. He was a sharecropper’s son who grew up in Mississippi amidst dire poverty. His mother died when he was 7 months old and his father left him shortly after that. Although he dropped out of [...]

Marks of Academic Revival by Keith Martel is one of my favorite articles of all time. Keith, the Director of Campus Ministries at Geneva College, challenges readers to consider what it would look like if a “revival” swept through college campuses today. Too often we limit our vision of revivals to people having intense, one-time “religious” [...]

One word that describes the higher education experience for many students is fragmented. Students participate in a fragmented curriculum, going from class to class, rarely being taught how or if the different classes connect. There is also a fragmentation between class and life. Students simply go through the motions to learn what is going to [...]