Found this cool story on Christianity Today:<\/p>\n
The Campus Confession Booth<\/span> <\/span>Don Miller was a student and campus ministry leader at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, a decidely secular and highly intellectual place that <\/span>Princeton Review<\/span> named “the college where students are most likely to ignore God.” In his book <\/span>Blue Like Jazz<\/a> (Nelson, 2003), Miller tells of an unlikely event that introduced him to the mysteries of spiritual transformation.<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/p>\n Each year at Reed they have a renaissance festival called Ren Fayre. They shut down the campus so students can party. Security keeps the authorities away, and everybody gets pretty drunk and high, and some people get naked. The school brings in White Bird, a medical unit that specializes in treating bad drug trips. The students create special lounges with black lights and television screens to enhance their mushroom trips.<\/p>\n Some of the Christian students in our little group decided this was a good place to come out of the closet, letting everybody know there were a few Christians on campus. Tony the Beat Poet and I were sitting around in my room one afternoon talking about what to do, how to explain who we were to a group of students who, in the past, had expressed hostility toward Christians.<\/p>\n I said we should build a confession booth in the middle of campus and paint a sign on it that said “Confess your sins.” I said this because I knew a lot of people would be sinning, and Christian spirituality begins by confessing our sins and repenting. I also said it as a joke. But Tony thought it was brilliant. He sat there on my couch with his mind in the clouds, and he was scaring the crap out of me because, for a second, then for a minute, I actually believed he wanted to do it.<\/p>\n >>> Read the entire article >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Found this cool story on Christianity Today: The Campus Confession Booth What I considered a horrible idea turned into a moment of transformation. by Donald …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algemeen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"bravada-featured":false,"bravada-featured-lp":false,"bravada-featured-half":false,"bravada-featured-third":false,"bravada-lpbox-1":false,"bravada-lpbox-2":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Mark","author_link":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Found this cool story on Christianity Today: The Campus Confession Booth What I considered a horrible idea turned into a moment of transformation. by Donald …","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["algemeen<\/a>"],"unlinked":["algemeen<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst 21 jaar geleden","modified":"Bijgewerkt 21 jaar geleden"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Geplaatst op 24 augustus 2005","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 24 augustus 2005"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Geplaatst op 24 augustus 2005 16:35","modified":"Bijgewerkt op 24 augustus 2005 16:35"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p63Qy-47","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":394,"url":"https:\/\/boerenroem.nl\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/06\/campus-ministry-and-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":255,"position":0},"title":"Campus ministry and snow","author":"Mark","date":"6 februari 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally I got to join the Rotterdam student ministry team (Henk Veltman and Heiko van den Broek) to do some good ol' evangelism. 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What I considered a horrible idea turned into a moment of transformation.<\/span>
by Donald Miller<\/p>\n