Jeff Keuss

Breathing Lessons: A Vision for Campus Ministries in the Twenty-First Century

In this article Dr. Keuss seeks to reassert the important relationship between campus ministry programs and Christian universities; he proposes four distinct movements within our current educational milieu—the movement from technological isolation toward real-life intimacy, from passive ethics toward engaged citizenship, from occupational drive toward radical vocational abandonment, and from racial ignorance and isolation toward true racial reconciliation through honesty, humility, and hard work.

Jeff Keuss

Finding A Church That I Can Receive In: Responding to the U2charist Debate

In a recent negative critique (a kind way of saying rant against) of the phenomena of U2charist services being undertaken at a number of churches worldwide,The Other Journal writer John Totten challenges the move as two fold liturgical error. On the one hand, Totten believes Bono has not sufficiently focused on the liturgical challenges of the […]

Jeff Keuss

The New Poverty and Responsive Economics

Introduction: The fact that we need a better understanding of economics in relation to how the Christian faith encounters the world in which we live should come as no surprise. The traditional metrics of wealth and poverty have been found wanting and the current upheaval in relation to the ever-growing rift between the ‘haves’ and […]

Jeff Keuss

Bring on the Love: U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Over the years that began with War and The Unforgettable Fire and became clarified to laser precision in The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby – U2 has wrestled with the twinned ‘angels of their better nature’ – (1) lyrically writing and rewriting the ways in which desire will only be fully consummated with our embrace […]