Category: College
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The Pilgrimage from Graduate Sunday: 7 Ideas for Congregations to Stay Connected
Yesterday, in many churches across the nation, high school seniors donned their cap and gown and “crossed the stage” of our sanctuaries. The service framed by their achievement, the sermon charged their future, and the gifts celebrated that they’d made it to the end of one great journey, and to…
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Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch: A Metaphor for Collegiate Ministry
In Acts 8:26-40, we find the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch. Philip hears the voice of God telling him to go to a place and he goes, with no idea what is waiting for him when he gets there. What Philip finds is someone seeking to connect with, and…
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Crammed Cars and Passing Seasons
Yesterday, following a meeting downtown, I decided to make the short trek across campus to the East Carolina student center to check our organization’s mailbox. As I walked, regretting every minute that I was wearing long pants and sleeves in almost 90 degree weather, something caught my eye. Students with…
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A Post 8 Years In the Making
“On days like that I guess the best you can hope for is that you took something from it… anything… anything at all. Even if it’s just taking the time to lay in the grass and think of all the things you have left to do.” – J.D. in Scrubs…
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Divinity student reflects on his time at Campbell
A post on the blog We Are Campbell by Irma Duke about my time as a student in the Campbell University Divinity School… (links to Campbell University’s blog)
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Another Year is Ending… Some Resolutions for 2013…
I’ve always been bad at New Year’s resolutions. This could possibly be because I’ve never really made any. Up to this year I’ve always just watched the ball drop and started January 1 with whatever it brought. The hardest part of coming into a New Year has always been trying…
