Nashville Bound

Are any of you headed towards Nashville for the YS convention??
I know this is late notice, but if you are I'd be glad to give you a place in my car or meet up in Nashville to chew through all the happenings....

Next Gathering

Hey All,

After the rousing success that was our first gathering we will be meeting again at "the Claddagh," Monday, December 5th at 7pm.

I've received a couple more emails from folks who will be jumping in with us, so it should be quite the group.

If you have a question pressing hard on your heart and mind that you'd like to discuss let me know, I'll be posting our topic for the night by Thanksgiving to give each of us a little bit of time to noodle on it.

Jed

first post-colonial talk

great people...
great conversation...
great time!

Monday Night

Just a reminder: this Monday night we'll kickoff our cohort at 7pm at the Claddagh on the corner of Polaris Parkway and Sancus Boulevard.

I'm looking forward to seeing you there.

still between two worlds...

thanks for your thoughts in regard to our culture and I have to agree that our teens are a post modern culture.

but here's the struggle. our teens are beginning to think a lot differently than the world around them. their teachers, parents and even their church is a modern world. the answers to their questions are very modern answers. so our kids are taught to be simple or be shallow, rather than to question or examine the truth.

so maybe the real work needs to be working with our families and the leadership of the church and begin to create a more post modern culture within our local body...?

between two worlds

here is a thought that has been rolling around in my head for some time now and would love some dialogue about it. "many of our kids are in between both the modern world and postmodern world," at least that is what i'm being told. but I have a tendency to think that the teens in our community are more postmodern than modern. how do I go about determining that or do I? hope this makes sense.

This question comes from Aaron who is up in Loudonville, a small rural farming town that is between two worlds in some ways.

Any thoughts for him? I grew up in and around DC, since then I've lived in suburban Columbus, so I'm not as familiar with the culture Aaron ministers in. Although, I'd say that due to media influences and the way they are confronted with the otherness of the world on a regular basis through media outlets that the kids are, "postmodern," because we as a nation are postmodern. I don't think it is a matter of choice - postmodernity is the era we are in, so by association the kids are postmodern. Perhaps the community isn't as progressive as others so there are still tendencies/perspectives which carry a more modern flavor.

Ok - so that thought was over generalized and could be shredded to pieces, but I think my idea comes across.

Northeast Ohio Connections

Tim and Matt (see comments from the first post), you aren't too far from each other up there in Akron and Youngstown. A lot closer than Columbus. You guys might be the start of something good forming up there.

Posting

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