Ministry Leadership professor at Bethel Seminary. Learner. Former coach. Three kids in high school and college. Wife pastors at City Church in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined August 2008
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Visited two college campuses for parents' weekend two weekends in a row where I also went for undergrad and grad school so it triggered many realizations and wonderings! ... And I should have kept some of them to myself.
Fellow thoughtful parents, you've been warned. 🤐
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Drop what you’re doing. Go to today’s New York Times Opinion section. Sit down in a quiet corner. Start reading: “I Teach at a Business School: It’s Time to Shut Them Down,”by Chris Marquis, Univ. of Cambridge, former HBS professor.
BRILLIANT.
IRREFUTABLE.
LOOOONG OVERDUE.
I started doing all the cooking when my wife started a position with more responsibility and the three high schoolers needed huge helpings of food and no longer needed me to coach their teams. The internet makes it way easier than in 1999 when you needed cookbooks.
The cycle "pulls money, attention and legitimacy away from the disciplines best equipped to question this logic: history, philosophy, sociology, political theory."
"I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down."
By Chris Marquis
Gift article:
nytimes.com/2026/10/18/opini…
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A "happiness crash" is unfolding among young adults. Since 2000, the share of 20-to-35-year-olds reporting unhappiness has more than doubled, from 11% to 23%.
By fueling social isolation, the Digital Revolution has exacted an esp. devastating cost on young adults.👇🏽
In Harlow's 1960s experiments, isolated monkeys "rocked, harmed themselves" & later cowered around peers.
Social contact, it turned out, was "as nonnegotiable as food or oxygen" for monkeys.
The same holds for young adults today. @Deseret deseret.com/opinion/2026/10/…
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The empirical social science around the positive impacts of religious attendance is overwhelming.
When I tell this to crowds, I often get this response:
"Yeah, but I don't believe in all that. I can find community in other ways."
Yet, there's been no replacement for religious community created in the last 30 years that has even 5% of the participation of weekend church-going.
So, there's kind of an impasse here.
Agreed. The 1 Timothy 3 description of an overseer includes hospitality and right treatment of spouse and children. It helps to live near the church building. We don't host as much as we did before becoming senior pastor because now all the family are involved hosting at church.
Chad Van Dixhoorn on how hospitality can act as a bulwark against ministerial failure. For so many pastors that fall, it comes out afterwards that no one really knew them — how they were in their private life and with their families.
Pastors: open your homes.
Congregants: encourage your pastors to show more hospitality.
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Note that the few activities that Americans do more often today, taking an exercise class, air travel and playing video games are often solitary. (They are also expensive)
@DKThomp has a great write up on this that is worth reading. derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
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Striking new @FamStudies: You've heard of the "male malaise," but it's much less of a problem for religious young men.
Churchgoing young men vs. unchurched:
✅ Very happy: 41% vs. 24%
✅ Life feels purposeful: 66% vs. 39%
✅ Depressed: 12% vs. 25%
@KBurchfiel3
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Prominent megachurch pastor @craiggroeschel has just cancelled his scheduled appearances at four upcoming Life Surge events, following our investigation.
Update from @bobsmietana @RNS:
Shoutout to @BostonGlobe and @AdamHimmelsbach for following up on our Life Surge reporting with this news about Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla:
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After my husband made an ambitious 2025 resolution, we’ve hosted people for dinner nearly every Saturday since January of last year and it’s been occasionally hard, often chaotic, & completely transformative for our social life.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
I had missed this from January. Exemplary work here by a snooty professor being open to the richness of popular sincere art.
There isn't a single "Live, Laugh, Love" sign in my house, but you should go to the Precious Moments Chapel. mbird.com/art/a-visit-to-the…
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Identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) has plummeted among younger teens in 2025 in the nationally representative YRBS survey from the CDC. Older teens show relative stability, consistent with data from young adults.
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NEW: I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards.
Spoiler Alert: They invited me into the VIP program after just one week. Here’s how I yeeted $20K+ ripping riskier and risker bets 🧵
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New: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled. propub.li/4dGHrwr
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"No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." ~ my latest @TheAtlantic w/ @grantjbailey
"In the popular imagination, religious faith and a thriving sex life don’t tend to go together. Movies, books, and TV shows depict religious couples as sexually inhibited or dysfunctional. But the data tell a different story." @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0… @FamStudies
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Marital satisfaction is generally highest for those who met in person rather than online
% "Very Happy" in marriage, by where they met:
✔️ 76%, Church
✔️ 73%, Party w/ friends
✔️ 73%, College
✔️ 69%, Work
VS
✔️ 61%, Online
@WendyRWang ifstudies.org/blog/who-asked… @FamStudies
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UPDATE: Tim Tebow announces he is “pausing” his relationship with Life Surge following our @pablofindsout x @MotherJones investigation.
Our previous request for comment from Tebow, in reply to our detailed list of questions, still stands.
More to come.
Good morning.
We investigated the Christian "scam" fronted by Tim Tebow: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?si=Mmz2…
