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Rachel Gilson's Christianity Today article "I Never Became Straight. Perhaps That Was Never God's Goal" won second in its category for the Evangelical Press Association Awards. We discuss the article, her journey and much more in this episode. A Yale graduate and MDiv student at Gordon-Conwell, Rachel ministers to students at Boston University and also works with Cru's National Theological Development Team.

Shane Sebastian, Executive Director of Global Missions for the Campus ministry of Cru, shares stories from Dublin(14:00) Luxembourg (16:00) a popular Workplace thread discussing Global Missions generalists/specialists (19:10) and why he wrote his concise, diverse new devotional resource "Packed" (23:30)

Julie Chang recently stepped into a new role co-leading Audience Expansion for the Campus Ministry. In this conversation we discuss films we’ve been enjoying with MoviePass (3:25)how God has used elephants more than once to draw Julie, a reluctant leader, into leadership (12:20) some of her experiences as a single Christian (27:07 & 50:25) her involvement in a local ministry to prostitutes (43:50) and her sabbatical on the Camino del Santiago (52:32)

Meet David Robbins, the new President of Cru’s Family Life Ministry. Did you know Family Life started as a singles ministry? I learn that at 17:20. We also discuss Family Life’s response to the evolving definition of family (21:40) how Family Life can minister to singles (27:15) the planned release of the multi-media Art of Parenting Resource (39:47) and what makes the TV series This is Us so popular (43:40)

If: Gathering speaker and author of "Warrior in Pink" Vivian Mabuni discusses paving the way for asian women to teach the Bible onstage (17:16) how addressing the under-representation of ethnic minorities in leadership can feel like screaming into the ocean (23:10) that the recent NYT article "Why Black Worshippers are leaving White Evangelical Churches" is spot on (27:55)and why we should follow Shaun King on Twitter. Connect with Vivian at www.vivianmabuni.com or on Facebook/Instagram @vivmabuni

Keith Johnson--Cru's Director of Theological Development--discusses cutting-edge evangelism tools (12:20) growing as a ministry in our ability to cross cultures (14:20) women in leadership (20:30) the importance of growing in ethical formation (31:25) and why he identifies with Star Trek's Jean Luc Picard (42:00).

Matt Mikalatos explains the design team's creative process as they program Cru's bi-annual staff conference.

Gina Butz talks Stranger Things, Enneagram and why any "Type" can lead.