Chapter 19: The Vision of Campus Ministry
I grew up in a very small town in Hooker, Oklahoma. My worldview was simple, rural, and defined by the edges of town that met the...
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Monty Daffern
Nov 2, 20222 min read
Chapter 12: The Siren's Call
I have learned that it is very easy for me to be selfish. Many things in my life can become annoying if I am not careful. When a moment...
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Monty Daffern
Feb 8, 20222 min read
Chapter 539: Porcupines in Winter
My dad was a state trooper for the state of Oklahoma. He said once to me that our jobs were very similar in nature. As a law...
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Monty Daffern
Feb 8, 20224 min read
Chapter 1994: Empty Chairs
One of the most bittersweet realities of decades in campus ministry is that you grow older. Alone. It’s not a bad thing, just hard...
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Monty Daffern
Feb 3, 20223 min read
Chapter 97: Faith is the Victory - Denton Wiggains
There are some songs in our Christian heritage that are forever connected with the first person I heard lead them. When it comes to my ...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 25, 20221 min read
Chapter 22: Praying for our Students
Students are in the third quarter of the school year. It is dark, cold, and filled with Covid-driven anxiety, worry, and fear. They have...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 16, 20226 min read
Chapter 15: Leadership with God's Vision
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Act 15 is a key moment of the...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 10, 20223 min read
Chapter 1211: My Wonderful Neighbor
I recently went to visit Mrs. Duncan in the Spanish Coves care facility on December 30th. We said hello and spent an hour laughing,...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 10, 20222 min read
Chapter 539: Where You've Been
I’ve taken up a new hobby. Tracking. I’m not very good at it. I hurt my elbow this fall and it took a long time to heal. So I...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20221 min read
He Leads Me Beside Stillwater
This is a great article written by one of our former UC interns, Chellie Mills, on the impact that the UC ministry had on her spiritual...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20223 min read
Chapter 2020: The Going Home Talk
At the end of each semester, students return home from 16 weeks of living the college reality. This is year is very different. The...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20225 min read
Chapter 26: Letters from James
There is an irony in trying to suggest that mankind is both indebted to live within the structure of laws and proclaiming that in the...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20222 min read
Chapter 5th: Corinthians - It Takes a Conversation Sometimes
1st Corinthians is actually 2nd Corinthians and 2nd Corinthians is probably 4th Corinthians. What!? When did this happen? I remember...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Chapter 728b: Singing to the Oldies
When does a new church song accord the privilege of making the noble transition to becoming one of the "oldies"? I recently was able to...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Chapter 103: How did I Get Here?
I never meant for it to happen. In retrospect, I can see how it happened. Very quietly. Slowly. And without attention. But it was...
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Monty Daffern
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Chapter 96: The Power of a Fishbone
I was nervous last night. It was my "return" to intramural sports. Granted, in the greater scheme of life and things, it was probably...
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Monty Daffern
Dec 12, 20206 min read
Chapter 273: Campus Ministry - The Holiday Break
If you are a campus minister you are probably in a weird place right now. You are experiencing the great detoxification of moving from a...
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Monty Daffern
Dec 10, 20202 min read
Chapter 183: Amazing Love
You have amazing love for me. It is amazing because I know what I am capable of. I know what thoughts escape my imagination at the blink...
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