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Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

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Pedagogy of Portals

By: on January 27, 2024

My cousin and I had two favorite childhood games. The first was “Little House on the Prairie.”  We lived in the country so it was easy to perform in such a setting.  We’d act out our favorite episodes or make up new drama that allowed us to practice our problem solving skills.  The second game…

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“For One Who is Exhausted”

By: on January 27, 2024

When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic, Time takes on the strain until it breaks; Then all the unattended stress falls in On the mind like an endless, increasing weight.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The light in the mind becomes dim. Things you could take in your stride before Now become laborsome events of will. Weariness invades your…

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Exploring Transformative Leadership through Threshold Concepts

By: on January 26, 2024

Reflecting on insights from this week’s exploration of threshold concept theory I’ve come to understand threshold concepts as “aha” moments or paradigm shifts that allow so many other things within a discipline, field, or practice to “click”, come together, and/or make sense in the mind of the learner. A threshold concept becomes a lens through…

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Crossing Threshold: a personal experience

By: on January 26, 2024

As we all read about ‘threshold concept’ each has shared various ideas, knowledge or experiences that have relation to this concept. I myself would like to start by saying this concept or word, ‘threshold concept’ which is also interchangeable with crossing a barrier can be part of each and everyone’s everyday life as we grow…

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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

By: on January 25, 2024

I will never forget the day the world shut down. The closing on our 65-year-old church building was just a week away and we were 80% of the way moved out with just a few more things to donate and sell. The storage units were filled. We had already started meeting at a movie theatre…

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The Land of “Not Yet”

By: on January 25, 2024

I have spent several years teaching middle school and high school students.  Watching some some wrestle more than others over foundational concepts.  Those kinds of concepts are that are absolutely crucial if one is to move forward to a deeper and more clear understanding.  I can remember working to find ways for more students to…

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Getting a Job with Jesus

By: on January 25, 2024

I have been trying to use the idea of threshold concepts to put language to what I have observed with ministerial development candidates during my participation in the annual interview process occurring every January. Candidates initially interview for their first district license, then every year for renewal culminating in a final interview to be recommended…

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Embracing New Realities with Reassuring Calm

By: on January 25, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic happened to all of us. It is our common lived experience. Though not as globally impactful I experienced regional viral epidemics and the ensuing public health interventions while living in Vietnam. The first in 2003 when SARS was diagnosed in Hanoi, quickly followed in 2004 by H5N1 better known as the Avian…

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I Need More Aha’s

By: on January 25, 2024

I am fascinated by this approach. I wish it had been taught to me when I was young, as I always struggled to learn. I had a brother who got straight A’s in every class he took. He never seemed to do homework, he never opened books, he wrote his own algebraic equations and came…

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From Knowledge Acquisition to Transformative Perspectives

By: on January 25, 2024

I love the rich visual imagery in liminality, crossing a threshold from one room to another and embracing the experience of the known past, gathering it with the unknown future. As I read “Overcoming Barriers to Student Learning”, I appreciated that Jan H. F. Meyer and Ray Land did not explain the nature of any…

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Concepts Within Threshold Concepts

By: on January 25, 2024

High school and college all-nighters were a constant in most of our educational upbringing. It feels just like yesterday. The agonizing thoughts surrounding an upcoming paper in that subject you were shaky in, or even worse, that dreaded midterm or final exam. Those memorable, miserable thoughts of reading, rereading, cramming, comprehending, anticipating, sweating, and then…

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Dignity Discovered through Threshold Concepts

By: on January 25, 2024

I did not find the topic of threshold concepts particularly exciting, certainly not one I would study by choice, but I understood the idea. After numerous starts and stops, and with a bit of prayer and coaching from my spouse, I opted to illustrate my notion of concept thresholds as it applies to social services,…

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Blasts from the past

By: on January 25, 2024

I looked at the required reading for this week. The overwhelming feelings were familiar, yet distant. Vague, yet far too real. Was it panic? Overwhelm? Annoyance? Resolve? As I skimmed the table of contents, looked at the chapter summaries, and started to read, déjà vu hit me. In fast-paced flashbacks as saw large colorful volumes:…

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Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi

By: on January 25, 2024

Bonjour. Je m’appelle Elysse. Je viens de Californie et j’ai étudié le français à Neuchâtel, en Suisse, pendant 10 mois. Hello. My name is Elysse. I am from California, and I studied French in Neuchatel, Switzerland for 10 months. This short introduction became my go-to presentation whenever I met someone during my time in Switzerland.…

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מלחמות ושמועות מלחמות – Wars and Rumors of Wars

By: on January 25, 2024

מלחמות ושמועות מלחמות (pronounced: melchamot veshemuot melchamot) – Aramaic for Wars and rumors of wars. Part 1:  Introduction Part 2: What lessons I took from Annabel Part 3: Impact on GoodSports Ukraine Selah Introduction: Matthew 24:6-7 (New King James Version): “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not…

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A Dusting of Frustrations and Serendipities

By: on January 24, 2024

When reading about threshold concepts, the song “Toyland” began playing in my head. “Toyland, toyland little girl and boy land. While you dwell within it you are ever happy there.”[1]  It is not a song that has been part of my repertoire. Several times I tried to push it aside not really wanting to be…

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Who To Become When You Really Don’t Know What’s Coming

By: on January 23, 2024

Praxis leaders[1] Dave Blanchard and Andy Crouch presented a webinar in the Summer of 2020 called, “Leading Without a Forecast: What to Do When You Really Don’t Know What’s Coming,”[2] on the heels of their timely article, “Leading Beyond the Blizzard: Why Every Organization is Now a Startup.”[3]  In their introduction, Andy tells the story of the…

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Threshold concepts are everywhere

By: on January 23, 2024

Threshold concepts (as described by Meyer and Land in Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding)[1] are often studied by educators [2], however, the impact extends far beyond the scope of academia into most domains of life.  Reflecting on my own experiences, I realized how threshold concepts played a pivotal role in reshaping my worldview, challenging preconceived…

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