Lent and March Madness have something in common—they both involve a lot of prayer. The two come around for a visit every spring, like young-adult children who look and act remarkably different yet acknowledge they're somehow related.
Takako's first glimpse of Jesus came through her hallway friendship with Dee, an InterVarsity international student from a closed country in Central Asia.
Jim Womack was a founder of the InterVarsity chapter at the University of Tennessee—Knoxville. He and his wife Charlotte have been faithful in their support of student ministry for the past sixty years, but they are humble about their work.
The tendency for evangelicals to name just a few things as sin (adultery, pride, some addictions, greed, laziness, etc.) and assume that all else is neutral, is naive and dangerous.
InterVarsity staff workers knew what Catherine couldn't see at first: that when she walked into a room the atmosphere changed. She connected people; she brought people together and made them feel comfortable.
What do you get when you mix Jesus and politics? Usually a very messy situation, often better left untouched. What happens when a Christian fellowship brings up Jesus and politics? As we found at Grinnell College, students start talking.
