By: Shonell Dillon on November 14, 2023
The Scandal of Leadership There’s a war going on and if you’re going to win, you better make sure that you have Jesus deep down within. This battle can not be won with bullets or guns. Because the enemy you can not see, the human faculties. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 14, 2023
Antifragile The postman that I reported for carelessly placing the mail in different boxes decided to pay me back. Instead of placing my package on the porch, he decided to throw it underneath my car tire. He did not know if I had something fragile in the box. He was acting Spell Bound. That is…
By: Pam Lau on November 14, 2023
A few weeks ago, my husband, Brad, and I had dinner with a friend who moved out of state during the Pandemic. Mark sat across the table from us seemingly more at peace than the last time we saw him. He caught us up on his new job, his wife and three children. Because I…
By: Kally Elliott on November 14, 2023
“Now, go to bed and let your brain work on it while you’re asleep.” My mom frequently said this to me when I was a child practicing a new song on the piano. I would roll my eyes, believing she was just trying to get me to go to bed for the night, but she…
By: Tim Clark on November 14, 2023
The Sci-Fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”[1] I know that quote because it’s provided the seed for many of my favorite stories, from superhero movies like Thor and Dr. Strange, to Sci-Fi shows like Star Trek, to mysteries like Sherlock Holmes, to just about anything having…
By: Kim Sanford on November 14, 2023
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.[1] One of the archetypes Daniel Lieberman highlights is the Journey. It’s true that as humans we connect deeply to this idea of an epic journey or even seeing life as a journey. This is evidenced by the sheer volume of vocabulary that exists…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 13, 2023
Spell Bound In scary movies when something moves in a dark haunted room, one character usually turns to the other and says ” did you hear that”. That character wants to know if the person beside them hears the movement and/or sounds that they have heard. What happens when no one is there and you…
By: Jennifer Vernam on November 13, 2023
Ten years ago, in a Harvard Business Review article[1], Susan David and Christina Congleton covered the topic of Emotional Agility in leaders. In it, they observed that it was not the negative thoughts that trips up leaders, it’s the way they respond and process those thoughts. Dr Daniel Liberman helps us to unpack this concept…
By: Travis Vaughn on November 13, 2023
Before I started this post, I asked my wife, “What are you doing?” “I’m thinking,” she replied. This afternoon we moved some old couches from our living room to an upstairs room. With the open space in our living room, my wife is pacing, thinking how to fill it. Now that I’ve read Daniel Lieberman’s…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on November 12, 2023
This week in the life of a doctoral student, I was assigned the book, Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. It is a book of over 500 pages of small print, including more notes and citation than I had time to count. The sub title of the book is “The Architecture of Belief”. The idea…
By: Kristy Newport on November 12, 2023
Books, and the authors that write them, do not always live up to my expectations. Eagerly I jumped into Spell Bound, anticipating greater insight into Jungian psychology, archetypes, and the unconscious coming to greater consciousness.[1] Some of these discoveries were made, but as I came into the second half of the book, something in my…
By: Jana Dluehosh on November 10, 2023
I am, was, will be, always have, sometimes am a “good girl” depending on your definition. I grew up most of my life in North Dakota, where there was not a lot to get in trouble with, except the normal teenage stuff. As an adult reflecting back, I always wondered why I didn’t do more…
By: Chad McSwain on November 10, 2023
“How do know the love of God is not a counterfeit-love?” This was asked by a teenager in a recent youth meeting on Wednesday night. The youth leader came up to me after the meeting and asked how I would answer that question. I thought about it for a moment then said, “If you know…
By: Caleb Lu on November 10, 2023
In the book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Jordan Peterson takes the reader on his journey in making sense of his own life choices along with the world events that surrounded him as he grew up (predominantly the Cold War and the threat of nuclear warfare)[1]. His observations, musings, and research led him…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on November 10, 2023
Introduction Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan Peterson is one of few challenging books, yet full of great insights that evoke more questions than answers. Even though it is hard to read, I have found a few areas where I identify with Peterson. He writes intriguing concepts worth exploring. Humans explore their…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on November 9, 2023
In a conversation with my dad this week, he asked what we were reading in our DLPG class. “Maps of Meaning, by Jordan Peterson,” I replied. He said he was familiar with the title, as it is one of his grandsons Nic’s favorite books. Nic was a philosophy major and often could be found in…
By: Shonell Dillon on November 9, 2023
It was often a practice of my peers to dare someone. Daring you meant that they were willing to make a bet that you would not do some crazy thing. For those that were not afraid of adventure or the unknown, they accepted the dare. If in fact the dare was dangerous they suffered their…
By: Russell Chun on November 9, 2023
အိုး၊ ပထမကမ္ဘာပြဿနာ။, Wow a 1st world problem or အခြားမိခင်မှ ညီအစ်ကိုများ, Brothers from another mother (Burmese) Part 1: What my peers and others are saying.. Part 2: Desire…End of Globalization?… Part 3: What I am learning…. Part 1: What my peers and others are saying.. In the discussion of Polanyi and capitalism[1], I made a…
By: David Beavis on November 9, 2023
Science: An Inadequate Tutor on Purpose The 20th-century missiologist and pastor Lesslie Newbigin wrote about the dialogue between science and Christian faith in his book Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel in Western Culture.[1] He pointed out that this assumption of knowing the essence of a thing simply by knowing all of the parts is an…
By: Pam Lau on November 8, 2023
“Unless we attend to these deeper workings of culture, Theological reflection will miss the most profound challenge of consumerism–the commodification of culture–the reduction of religious beliefs, symbols, and values to objects of consumption.”[1] What is My Desire? Truth be told, when I saw what was scheduled on my calendar from June 28-July 1, 2023, I…
