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3 Things To Look For In A Mentor: A Tribute To My Own Mentors
In my work as a University Chaplain, I talk a lot with students about having a good mentor and becoming a good mentor to another. One of the findings of the National Study of Youth and Religion is that...
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The Day That I Started To Understand Racism
It was a hot June day in 2011. My wife and I had been parents for just four days. I suppose by this time I had become pretty settled with the idea that America as a whole had shifted away from the...
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Meet the 2014 Lantz Center Commissioning Class
The Lantz Center for Christian Vocation and Formation is one of the programs of great depth in the Christian faith at the University of Indianapolis. UIndy, as we refer to the university, is not a...
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The Most Important Action for Pro-Life Christians: Foster and Adopt
When my wife and I decided to have a child in 2011, we decided to foster parent as a response to a calling. There are more … ahem … “natural” ways to have children and we certainly considered that...
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Palestinians are People: A Missionary’s Observations
As of today, 197 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,500 have been injured in Israel’s constant bombing of Gaza over the last 10 days. Though Palestinians have fired lots of rockets and...
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When Blogging Becomes Sinful
Maybe I am becoming the negative and divisive person that I so dislike as representative of Christianity. It seems like there is an occasion every couple months that Mark Driscoll infuriates me to an...
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How I Became an Advocate for Women in Ministry
I didn’t grow up in a church community. So when I became a Christian at 18 years old, I had no idea that some people thought women shouldn’t be in church leadership. It wasn’t that I hadn’t noticed...
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“Don’t Hold on to Me”: Finding Gratitude in a Time of Transition
This sermon was from the last service of McCleary Chapel last year. As students prepared to transition out of university life, feelings ranged from joy and hope for the future to grief for the friends...
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One Young Woman’s Efforts to Help Trafficking Victims
One of the greatest joys of pastoral ministry is seeing the amazing ways that people respond to God’s move in their lives. We have a committed group of students working to raise awareness about human...
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UIndy Student Lenten Devotional 2015
I’m glad to offer a free devotional created by the students and for the students of McCleary Chapel Ministries at the University of Indianapolis. I hope that you too will enjoy taking the Lenten...
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