From the category archives:
i bookmarked this video on mike king’s blog some time ago, and finally got around to watching it. it’s stefan sagmeister, a new york designer, giving a talk at TED about the power of taking time off.
i often find that i need people who do things more extreme than me to push [...]
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if you’re a youth worker and you don’t subscribe to the fuller youth institute’s free e-journal, then you are seriously missing out or living in a cave.
this week’s e-journal had a link to an interview kara powell conducted with jim belcher, author of deep church (my review of this great book). i’m friends with [...]
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a few weeks ago, i spoke at forest home’s middle school winter camps. the middle school director at forest home is my friend, nate rice, a fantastic middle school youth worker and a deeply good guy. but in a great quirk of life, nate is in a role that was once — decades [...]
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i’ve been home from haiti for more than a week. but i’ve had a hard time figuring out how to re-engage blogging. it’s almost like i used so many words that week, and so much of what little emotional bandwidth i have, that i haven’t had reserves left for whatever this — post [...]
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tonite i fly to miami, where i’ll overnight, then join the rest of the team for our trip to haiti tomorrow. i’m full of expectation, trepidation, anticipation, and disbelief. all of this came together so quickly (though not without a great deal of work and forethought) that it’s almost impossible to believe that [...]
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last week, i blogged about the (still hard for me to believe) reality that i’m going to haiti in a week and a half. as each day passes, and the actual departure feels like a car careening across the median toward me, i’m filled with a combo platter of emotions. i’m nervous — [...]
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Millennials’ Judgments About Recent Trends Not So Different
report on new pew research
a tease:
As might be expected, members of the Millennial generation are enthusiastic about the technological and communication advances of the past decade. They are also highly accepting of societal changes such as the greater availability of green products and more racial and ethnic [...]
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my friend mark aardsma has (fairly recently) begun blogging under the punchy little blog title of his last name — it’s a blog for leaders and entrepreneurs (which is what mark is). but his post the other day really caught my attention. he suggests that, while the leadership training movement toward focusing on [...]
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fascinating post over on ypulse the other day, culled from an mtv sticky report called youthtopia (a study of hopes and dreams). the study describes itself this way: “In the first-ever effort to understand the values, hopes and dreams of young people in Europe, MTV asked over 7,000 youths to imagine their ideal world and [...]
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