At noon, Registration begins, the exhibit hall opens, and the 10th Annual Urban Youth Workers Institute (2007) begins. Workshops start at 1:30pm and the general session this evening (Raise a New City: Harvey Carey) starts at 7:30pm. Our first worship CD (“Soul La De”) is also available for purchase (on location only, for now) starting…

If you put in uywi.org and get this image, you have come to the wrong place (or at least arrived at the wrong place). We did get word (and someone sent us the above image) that at least for one individual, when typing “www.uywi.org” into their browser, it brought up a simple page for the…

I’m not sure who thinks these things up, but it does make for a good post. Miami tops the list for the most incidents of road rage, with other top 5 notables being NY, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The list shows the worst offenders rated by over 2,500 drivers in 25 major metropolitan…

“Right now, rappers are glorifying their hell… We were the problem of our communities, but we never bragged about it. We kept moving on about life. But right now, these hip-hoppers are stuck on one thing. They stuck on sex and violence and drugs and partying. Life is way more than that.” – Wu-Tang Clan’s…

Shane spoke with John Perkins in our “Cost of the Kingdom” General Session at UYWI06. This week, he wrote an article at beliefnet.com on the culture and result of violence, particularly in response to the shooting at Virginia Tech. “Violence kills the image of God in us. It is a cry of desperation, a weak…

…we’re living in frontier country right now. We can take guesses at the future, but it’s hard to gauge the effects of a drug while you’re still taking it. What happens when a person who has archived her teens grows up? Will she regret her earlier decisions, or will she love the sturdy bridge she’s…

A PSA with a point, warning youth about the dangers about what they post online. This PSA is also from the same campaign.

this may be a bit dated, but still relevant.