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« Previous EntriesChurches Should Adopt Schools? (Via YM Today)
Monday, August 30th, 2010While away, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Youth Ministries Today revived an article I wrote for National Network of Youth Ministries in 2008, before the launch of 20/20 Vision for Schools. Why Churches Should Adopt Public Schools Sometimes a good idea takes a while to generate traction. But then a combination of timing, [...]
“I am my School” and other Student Prayers for New York
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010[Ed. note: Originally published in August 2010 issue of Tri-State Voice] Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way. For the last twelve months, student leaders from greater New York have proven this truism time and again. Now some are organizing a citywide prayer walk of 1,600 public schools the weekend of [...]
Latest Article in Tri-State Voice
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010“RELOAD 1.2.3: Innovating Youth Ministry Training in Metro NY/NJ” (June 2010) Here’s an excerpt: Interactive general sessions and two featured workshops will originate in the Bronx and be simulcast to the other locations via the internet. More talk show than sermon, the simulcast sessions feature topics such as “Homegrown: The Leader,” “Handoff: The Legacy,” and [...]
Latest article: “The Gospel and Marvin Gaye” in Charisma
Friday, May 7th, 2010The May 2010 issue of Charisma magazine features “The Gospel and Marvin Gaye” about the intersection (or too often lack thereof) between worship and justice. Co-authors Jeremy Del Rio and Louis Carlo are both featured trainers at UYWI’s upcoming Reload 1.2.3 event in NY and NJ on June 12, and Pastor Lou is also leading [...]
The Call to Open Source Ministry
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The call to Open Source ministry training originally posted here two weeks ago is reverberating on cyberspace. UrbanFaith.com republished it today, one week after Youth Specialties featured it as well. The Information Age has changed the cultural landscape, and our models for ministry must change along with it to stay relevant — and raise more [...]
On Starburst Nipple Rings and Super Bowl Memories
Sunday, February 7th, 2010Anticipating a great game — and half-time snoozefest — for Super Bowl XLIV, and remembering the controversy that precipitated the recent wave of half-time retreads? Originally posted in 2004. ___________________ Let’s Talk about Sex A sixteen year old boy ogles internet porn on his bedroom PC. His fourteen year old sister listens to Jessica Simpson’s [...]
Judah’s “Exciting Day with the Assistant Principal”
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010My heart’s all aflutter seeing Judah’s interest and affinity for writing. Today his first published article went live, courtesy of the Journalism Stars club at PS 102. I reprint it in full here (for my own archival purposes) but enjoy it at the club’s Virtual Journal site as well. Feature: My Exciting Day with the [...]
Humbling: Sojo and UrbanFaith in One Day
Thursday, October 1st, 2009October 1, 2009, feels like a milestone. I found out this morning that UrbanFaith.com published “
My first Twitview for Entrepreneur Enclave
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Friend and business guru Harry Tucker recommended me (via Twitter) for a “Twitview” with Entrepreneur Enclave — an interview consisting of nine questions and answers constrained only by Twitter’s 140 character limit. Participation was an exercise in self-editing, but fun. Turns out the Twitviewer and I have at least one mutual friend in California. Here’s [...]
Back to School with 20/20 in the News
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009This month, two local newspapers and a national magazine profiled 20/20 Vision for Schools as part of their back-to-school coverage. In New York, both city-wide Christian monthlies published “Why Public Schools Matter to God (and Should Matter to You Too),” a column that makes the case to pastors and faith leaders why literacy and education [...]
Going Public
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009The comment below was published as a Sidebar to a feature article called “Going Public” in the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Outreach magazine, and challenges churches and youth groups to think differently about Campus ministry. How is your youth ministry engaging the public middle and high schools nearest your church this year? Download the article [...]
Love from My Favorite New Kind of Christian
Monday, September 14th, 2009Brian McLaren shouted out Pastor Louis Carlo and me from his blog last week. Worship and Justice … Jeremy del Rio and Louis Carlo get it right Jeremy Del Rio and Louis Carlo have a beautiful and needed article on worship and justice available here. Thank you, Brian, for your encouragement! PS… Brian’s next book, [...]
Why Public Schools Matter to God (and Should Matter to You Too)
Sunday, August 30th, 2009My latest article was published in the September issues of Tri-State Voice and Love Express. Here’s an excerpt. How many eighth grade Bible studies lead with Lamentations? Or Leviticus? Yet last I checked, Lamentations and Leviticus are part of the Biblical canon, along with Romans and Revelation and lots of other heady reading material. Should [...]
Singing and Praying Justice: My New Article at UrbanFaith.com
Monday, August 24th, 2009My latest article, co-written with Pastor Louis Carlo of Abounding Grace Ministries, was published today at UrbanFaith.com. Here’s an excerpt. … At its core, the Gospel is a story about a loving God who reconciles humanity into loving relationships with Himself, themselves, and each other. Justice fits into the story as Christ rights the wrongs [...]
Confessions of a Hypocrite on Loving the Least of These
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Confessions of a Youth Pastor Hypocrite on Loving the Least of These: Meeting Jesus on the Lower East Side [The following is an excerpt of Jeremy Del Rio's latest article originally published in the May/June 2009 issue of The Journal of Student Ministries. Read the entire article here, or subscribe to The Journal here.] Salvation [...]
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