It’s Gettin’ Missional Up in Here

One of the things I’ve been doing when not raising support or planning our move is developing a missional theology of campus ministry. 

Missional theology has been one of the most important and exciting developments in the Church over the last decade or so. The discussion has fueled a lot of Biblical reflection, innovation, and church planting. 

Surprisingly, this has not carried over to campus ministry. I base this on the fact that very few people are writing on it. In fact, if you google “Missional campus ministry,” most of the initial entries are from yours truly! I don’t say this to brag, but to demonstrate the need for some reflection on missional approaches to campus ministry. 

So I’ve been writing. It’s a reflection on what we’ve been implementing at Temple University and Philadelphia University, and what I hope to be doing at Penn State. If you head over to the Resources section here on my blog, you can find 4 articles I’ve written related to campus ministry. I’ve just posted two on “The Global University,” which ties into the discussion of Global Cities and our flat world. The first two have also been posted over at campusministry.com, where they’ve been among the most active articles on the site. I also got a request from the Catholic Campus Ministry Network (which I granted) to reprint my first article in their monthly newsletter. So that was cool. More articles to come, too. 

Feel free to check them out and let me know what you think! If you’re also a practitioner, let me know! I’d like to eventually gather other missional campus ministry folks to see what might come of it, maybe form a network of sorts.