Chris Bishop

I recently picked up Brian McLaren’s newest book again.  I had started reading it a couple of weeks ago at night and now it has made its way to the daytime reading list (more or less because I have a really bad book that the conference is requiring us to read and I am putting [...]

Here is a story from the guys over at Group publishing about the things youth report needing in their lives.  I thought that it was in interesting result.  Also I think that it shows the importance of faith relationships, and puts the pressure of Christian educators to have some clear and drawn out plan of [...]

I was at a worship conference that week that was amazing.  One of the things that Mike Slaughter, Lead Pastor at Ginghamsburg UMC, talked about was creating a culture where there are no Volunteers.  Rather at GUMC they have teams of unpaid Servants. The difference he explained is that people who volunteer do it on [...]

I can only imagine how this show came to be be.  I would like to think that some guy was sitting around his mother’s basement thinking about all of the dumb games that he played in youth group when he was a middle/high school student and said, “People would watch this.” I have seen video [...]

Under the cap of a Snapple Green Tea that I had today my fun fact was: Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. I couldn’t help think about how our joy is stolen.  What takes our laughs?  Are our lives more boring or are [...]

How are we going to teach the faith and traditions of the church to our young poeple? How are we going to  share the mysery and wonder with the next generation? How can we lay the foundation for a spiritual life that will last a life time in? I can’t help but think that worship [...]

I have had a number of conversations with a couple of different groups throughout this past week and a half and there is a common thread throughout a number of the conversations. I think that the disconnect is a problem of perspective.  Do you live out your faith so that you are can gain the [...]