What are you doing with your spare time?

I’ve been reading Clay Shirky’s new book Cognitive Surplus.  The book is challenging my thinking on the impact of social networking and all things digital on society.  In the book, Shirky notes that people in the United States spend 200 billion hours a...

Letting Kids Respond to God Digitally

We finished three weeks of Hot U at the end of July.  It was an intense time that required over 400 volunteers and served over 1000 kids.  One of the things that we looked at this year was trying to find a way to allow the kids a place to catalog what they had learned...

Get your ideas organized

I am a huge fan of mind-mapping.  It’s an easy way to organize your ideas.  Here’s a great resource on how to get started (crayons required). View the original source for this post I was having trouble getting started on this column, so I turned away from...

What’s Next in Children’s Ministry?

My recent project for the Cory Center was What Matters Now in Children’s Ministry.  While the team that developed this resource are still in conversation about how to further the use of the content and expand it, I’ve been wondering about a new project:...