Courtney Young is a graduate of Luther Seminary - M.Div. with an emphasis in Congregational Mission and Leadership. Missional, a Millennial, and a new mother, Courtney shares her thoughts with us here:
Now that Christmas is over, way over, can we please talk about Christmas? I hold this idea that if something actually matters, you will talk about it before it is right on top of you. So here it goes - during the Christmas season, my Facebook feed fills up with all sorts of …
Courtney Young is a May 2012 graduate of Luther Seminary - MDiv with an emphasis in Congregational Mission and Leadership. Missional, millenial and now, a new mother, Courtney shares her thoughts with us here:
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the church and social media. Partly because I used to work in seminary relations so I got to troll a lot of bad church websites and snicker because it's not 1995 anymore. Partly because I recently attended a consultation that was tackling the …
I read articles all through seminary like "Spiritual Nomads," an article The Lutheran published to offer their explanation about what makes us Millennials tick (i.e. why don't we come to church). I used to read these articles and wonder myself why my peers didn't go to church. What wasn't working for them? What was I getting that they weren't? Now that I have moved to a new town, been unemployed for five months, am preparing to have a baby, and, most importantly, am not serving …