by Jake Sorenson, PhD | Dec 5, 2024 | Camp and Culture, Theology and Culture
Happy Advent! In this season of expectant waiting, here is a riddle for you: This thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays king, ruins town,And beats high mountain down. So spoke Gollum to Bilbo...
by Sacred Playgrounds | Nov 5, 2024 | Camp and Culture, Theology and Culture
Election day: November 5, 2024. I woke up early this morning and could not get back to sleep. The polls have yet to open. All I wanted to do this morning was write about the clear choice in this election. But that is not where this is going. Disagreeing with those I...
by Sacred Playgrounds | Nov 28, 2023 | Camp and Culture, Theology and Culture
Be still and know that I am God. Be still and know. Be still. Be. If you’ve been in ministry for any appreciable length of time, you have likely used this devotional technique using Psalm 46 as a way to center a group. I used it recently in a group discussing general...
by Sacred Playgrounds | Sep 14, 2023 | Outdoors and Wilderness, Theology and Culture
I looked out through the tree branches and stifled a laugh building deep in my belly. It was late October in Wisconsin, and I was fifteen feet up in a tree stand. The first snow of the season was slowly accumulating on the leaf-covered ground. The sight was...
by Jared Rendell | Jul 26, 2023 | Camp and Church Leadership, Scholarly Publications, Theology and Culture
We’re honored to share this article from Word and World on, Luther Seminary’s quarterly journal of theology, in which Dr. Jake Sorenson and Dr. Rollie Martinson share findings from the Camp and Church Leadership Project and why they matter in theological...
by Sacred Playgrounds | Mar 16, 2023 | Theology and Culture
The Age of Authenticity is in full swing. The highest moral good has become reduced to a simple maxim: be yourself. At face-value, this is not a bad thing. Far from it. We want people to discover their God-given gifts (1 Corinthians 12). We want them to know that they...
