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What is wrong with you people!? What do you mean you don’t agree with everything we say? What do you mean the Youth Ministry Sherpas Podcast is not your favorite podcast ever? It’s easy to take [...]

It’s February. It’s icy. It’s cold. We haven’t seen the sun since the 1840s. (Okay, a slight exaggeration, but it feels that way.) If you live in Maryland, Wisconsin, New England, or the Midwest, [...]

Ethan Parker, one of the church leaders who didn’t cancel their event for football, joined us this morning, and we ate a little bit of crow. What happens when conventional wisdom says to cancel, [...]

Politics, covid, race, — it has been a tumultuous 10 months. We spent the previous two episodes processing some of our frustrations with the culture of division and talking about how we can [...]

Justin and Matthew sit down and chat in the first episode of the new year talking through some of the hacks they learned while leading in 2020. Last year was a unique one for everyone and it [...]

The Youth Ministry Sherpas are back for another discussion about how to help our students think critically in a world gone mad. Recording this the day after the inauguration, we are pleased to [...]

We took a couple months off, and the world lost its collective mind! The Sherpas, who both live a few miles north of Washington, DC, are swimming in the waters of politics in our cities and our [...]

Every youth worker knows the struggle of navigating the mine field of social media with their students. Now we realize how serious this challenge is not only in what they post, but in what their [...]

This morning we dove into the idea of in culture, why are we portrayed the way we are? We talked about the Buccaneers success, and the success of bringing in free agents. We talked about what [...]

Is James Hardin wearing a fat suit? Is that the way to get traded to Brooklyn? Why does the fat suit version of Hardin look like the regular version of Andrew, and why is it so hard to buy a suit [...]