Serving Bread

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Using a pseudonym, a college professor shares his reflections on his students in this Atlantic Monthly article. As the writer wrestles with the myth that a university education is for everyone, he makes observations that resonate with my own [...]

We just got back from New Orleans, having taken ten students as part of our first Missions Team. We served alongside a Southern Baptist ministry that is helping rebuild it after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
This was my second trip to New Orleans in response to Katrina. Nearly three years later and [...]

Some of our students compiled this video…

From the extended syllabus of Systematic Theology 3:
10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. The pastoral duties of men who have children might distract them from the responsibility of being a parent.
8. The physique of men indicates that they are more suited to such tasks as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It [...]

Today marks 10 years of full-time ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. On April 1, 1998, I was appointed as provisional staff (provisional until I secure funding for my budget). God has done much in my life and through my life in the last ten years of ministry. There will be a season soon enough [...]

The Gospel of John has served as an important book in the past several years in forming and influencing me. Of late, I have spent time learning about and from John the Baptist, an important figure in all the gospels, who serves as the first of seven witnesses in the gospel of John. Here are [...]

“Eddy, you need a bigger house!” Kaitlyn told me in response to our dinner guests. Maybe she’s right.
On Monday, we hosted a Thanksgiving Feast for our community of students. Over 50 people packed into our home for food and fun. Because it was potluck style, students brought most everything except the meat. I cooked up [...]

Last night, I got a phone call from one of our core InterVarsity students and close friend Yemi (affectionately known as Sky). He is a board member of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and had been asked to speak at City Hall on the one year anniversary of the Michael [...]

On Monday, we had our first small group at Pierce College. I believe InterVarsity had a presence at Pierce (perhaps 40 years ago) but it had disengaged from the campus for many years now.
The young student leader looked nervous at first (especially since the door to the meeting room was locked), but she worked through [...]