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I’ve been asked to share my thoughts on Youth Ministry recently. I pressed some hot buttons recently when I said that youth ministers were not assured of a position in emerging churches. What I needed to add to that conversation was that senior pastors, associate pastors, worship pastors, etc. were not assured of positions either. These roles are fluid and determined ad-hoc by the community themselves, not through predetermined understandings of church structure…

Kara Powell, Director of the Center for Youth and Family Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary, sat me down recently to pursue these questions further. Here are a few of my thoughts…

Thanks, Kara, for your persistence and patience in making this happen…

My one-year blog anniversary came and went. I had 89 posts last year; I’m surprised that I wrote that many, given my last hiatus from blogging. The academic quarter overwhelmed me — I did everything possible to stay up with two new courses and some writing projects. The quarter is not over, but I’m determined to regain contact with those in the blogger community. More blog posts will be coming soon…