May 2 2012 Written by Cameron Strang

For readers of this magazine, the biggest generational divide we have is probably what someone thinks of Blue Like Jazz. If you’re, say, 28 to early 40s, the book very likely had a significant impact on your life and faith. But if you’re younger than that (or if you’ve only read it recently) you probably liked it but didn’t think it was all that groundbreaking. Which says a lot about what God has done in our generation since it came out.

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Mar 1 2012 Written by Cameron Strang

On the cover, what if it looked like a photo—but it was actually a video of The Roots holding really still, and you could see them just barely move?  Do you think we could we get ?uestlove to wink?

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Jan 5 2012 Written by Cameron Strang

It was early 2005 when I received an email from Scott Harrison. He was about to turn 30, and though I didn’t know him, he was clearly at a crossroads in his life.

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Nov 9 2011 Written by Cameron Strang

New Orleans is an odd city. It’s as if, at one point a long time ago, someone who made important decisions just stopped and said: You know what? City planning isn’t worth the hassle. A typical block goes like this: historical building, bar, empty lot, business, abandoned home, historical building, bar, empty lot. Repeat a thousand times, and you have New Orleans.

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Sep 1 2011 Written by Cameron Strang

It seems like every decade or so, a label gets applied to a generation that’s fairly permanent. In the late ‘60s and ’70s, dirty hippies ushered in an era of protests and social change. In the ’80s, everyone started looking like Ferris Bueller or Alex P. Keaton, and a Reaganomics-fueled booming economy turned things pretty materialistic and me-focused. In the ’90s, Gen X rebuff ed those values and everyone became flannel-wearing slackers that listened to Pearl Jam.

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Jul 6 2011 Written by Cameron Strang

In March 2008, I got an unexpected email from author Rick Warren inviting me to go to Africa with him. The catch? I had to leave in five days.

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Feb 4 2011 Written by Cameron Strang

Thoughts from Feb. 3’s National Prayer Breakfast

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Jan 4 2011 Written by Cameron Strang

I’m not really one for New Year’s resolutions. Invariably, the Bally membership goes unused, coffee becomes a daily habit again and the pre-bedtime routine drifts back to watching Seinfeld instead of reading two books a week.

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