The Question for Spiritual Seekers: Now What?
We talk a lot about serving the needs of spiritual seekers online but I often ask a bigger question to many of my colleagues. Once they find you online…then where…
Millennial Milestones
I’m speaking today at the Diocese of Buffalo’s Millennial Milestones conference, an all-out effort to appeal to the needs of the young adults of the diocese. Rumor has it that…
Ignatius and the World
I’ve been thinking much about how strange it must have been to be an early follower of St. Ignatius. Being a “contemplative” engaged with the needs of the world was…
Mandatory Reading for Anyone Who Does Ministry With Millennial Catholics: Young Catholics Are Not TALIBAN CATHOLICS
Amen, Amen I say unto you, John Allen of NCR. As usual, he gets the actual story accurately. I’m taking partial credit for this article because this is EXACTLY what…
Project Chaste: Not For Losers?
Often when young people start talking about leading chaste lives and screaming it from the rafters that they are saving themselves for marriage, I wonder why they need to make…
NCR: Young Catholics Accept the Church as It Is
An excellent piece by Tom Roberts in NCR’s Emerging Church Series. He interviews 8 young Jersey City parishioners on their sense of being Catholic. The results seem to surprise him,…
Tonight on Net TV…Once Again…
is me. I did an iWitness segment with them on my ministry to young adults. I was quite moved by some of the questions so check it out by going…
Best Practices: Using the Net FOR Ministry
I’m just leaving the Richmond Diocese where I led a group of parish and diocesan leaders in using technology for ministry. I’ve come to the conclusion that many on parish…
Columbine:10 Years later
In Googling God (my book) I attest that Columbine is a seminal moment in the life of the Millennial Generation, that their world has been marked by many tragedies all…