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Articles by Jason Lief

Jason Lief is Associate Professor of Religion and Youth Ministry at Northwestern College in Orange City, IA.

Consuming Rightly: The Task of Christian Higher Education

  • Jason Lief
2
5 years ago

The task of Christian institutions of higher education is to help young people “consume rightly” by cultivating a Eucharistic way of life.

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  • college students
  • higher education
  • vocation

Being Grateful for my “Stupid Little Life”: Why We Need Movies

  • Jason Lief
0
5 years ago

More and more I’m convinced the current cultural paradigm leaves us too thin. The practical and objective approach to reality doesn't attend to the complexity and mystery of the created world; it doesn't attend to the complexity and mystery of our humanity.

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  • benefits of movies
  • human complexity

Wasting My Vote: Why I am an “Independent”

  • Jason Lief
3
5 years ago

In the 2000 presidential election I voted for Ralph Nader, a decision that brought ridicule from all sides. I had grown weary of the inability to think outside the box.

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  • caring for the least of these
  • Christianity
  • health care
  • Independent
  • politics

Cultivating a Biblical Imagination

  • Jason Lief
1
5 years ago

The best thing we can do to prepare to read and hear the biblical story is to exercise our imagination.

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  • Bible
  • Christianity
  • hermeneutic
  • imagination
  • Tolkein

Young People and Faith: Encountering God “In All Things”

  • Jason Lief
2
6 years ago

Increasingly, for young people, no longer is God confined to a particular location—a church, a liturgy, even the sacraments or scripture; they no longer believe the pastorate or the priesthood is a higher more spiritual calling. Instead, God is found in the experiences of this world—a postmodern spirituality in which the sacred is intricately woven into creaturely life.

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  • Bonhoeffer
  • Christianity
  • creaturely life
  • postmodernism

The Responsible Ones: Young People, Faith, and Letting Go

  • Jason Lief
5
6 years ago

More thoughts on the Pew Research Center's findings on the decline of youth in the church: "We need to remember that the life and existence of the church doesn’t depend on us. The church is not something we have to anxiously preserve; the church is created and sustained by God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. Our task is to BE the church, to live as the new humanity in and for the world."

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  • Pew Research Center
  • youth ministry
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