By: Jean Ollis on June 13, 2019
Here we are – it’s officially summer 2019 and we are on the cusp of finishing the LGP academic work for our DMin degree. It’s hard to believe we have only one more travel advance with the George Fox/Portland Seminary LGP program. This fall the program will culminate for the LGP8’s with a trip to…
By: Jay Forseth on June 13, 2019
Lisa and I can hardly wait. We are pumped to go to the United Kingdom! Being together to make lifetime memories–SWEET! We are starting our time in Scotland, United Kingdom for 5 days before our London and Oxford Advance officially begins. Lisa is part Scottish and may call herself a Scotty on occasion. Our free…
By: Mark Petersen on June 13, 2019
British culture has its own peculiar flavour, even for a colonial like me. So much is familiar, yet I am oddly struck from time-to-time by dissonances between British culture and my own. Canada, as one of the Old Dominions, slowly evolved in becoming its own country. I’m writing this blog post from my home office…
By: Kyle Chalko on June 13, 2019
Mining for Gold by Tom Camacho has been a fun book to be our last leadership book together. Coaching is still on the rise and I think that is because people have discovered it’s much more than a fad. About 7 years ago the district office of my denomination launched a coaching initiative, and since…
By: Dan Kreiss on June 13, 2019
Wait! What? This is our final advance and we finish in London/Oxford. I was nervous about Pecha Kucha in front of all of you stunning intellectuals already. Now I have to do it in the auspicious halls of English academia? Sorry, I’m out!! Have a good time y’all. (That is my inner TN redneck coming…
By: Jason Turbeville on June 13, 2019
As I started to peruse the two books for this week, I had a flashback to our first year. We read several books to get us ready for our advance to SA that gave us a historical perspective of Christianity in Africa and the affects of apartheid specifically in SA. I had a moment of…
By: Dave Watermulder on June 13, 2019
Great Britain is in the news again, and not for positive reasons. The Brexit debate continues to rage and boil, as the slow-motion mechanisms of politics and governance continue. It was recently reported that “Theresa May stepped down as Conservative Party leader last Friday after failing to break the Brexit deadlock. On Monday, ten candidates were…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on June 13, 2019
The books for this week were very interesting and informative and surely assigned so we could get acquainted with the location of our next advance. Since I am extremely good at putting my foot in my mouth (or both feet for that matter) at the most inopportune times, the Do’s and Don’ts sections in both…
By: Greg on June 13, 2019
Culture shock can be very real. One often experiences culture shock in places where they believe the culture is the same as their home country. I have seen culture shock experienced worse by those that feel like their world travelers or grew up in a multicultural environment. One thing I learned about culture shock is…
By: Mike on June 12, 2019
Orin Hargraves CultureShock! London and Terry Tan’s CultureShock! Great Britain are a great pair of pre-travel books intended to prime LGP8 for the 2019 George Fox University LGP Advance in London, England. These are great sources to help prepare and set some initial expectations when adventuring into the British culture. Right off I asked myself,…
By: Colleen Batchelder on June 12, 2019
Welcome to London – a place that’s decorated in splendor and infiltrated by diversity. This week’s assignment delves into the varied facets of the local watering holes, the tree-lined streets, and the echoing sounds of change that reverberate upon the walls of the London Underground. Orin Hargraves and Terry Tan envelop us in the varied…
By: Greg on June 11, 2019
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By: Jennifer Williamson on June 11, 2019
My husband is a five on the enneagram. That means he likes to be “in the know.” He’s the kind of person that would eat up books like Culture shock! London and Culture Shock! Great Britain. These books explain everything from how to hail a taxi to what to wear to different social events. I…
By: Mark Petersen on June 10, 2019
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By: Jason Turbeville on June 10, 2019
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By: Trisha Welstad on June 9, 2019
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By: Kyle Chalko on June 9, 2019
This might have been a book I should have bought a physical copy of. I was only a little familiar with Martyn Percy before this assignment. In fact in took me a minute to recognize the name. I actually have used one of Martyn Percy’s books in the specific research for my dissertation. Percy’s book…
By: Jean Ollis on June 7, 2019
As I was researching the writings of Martyn Percy I unearthed our very own Dr. Jason Clark’s PhD thesis, Evangelicalism and Capitalism: A reparative account and diagnosis of pathogeneses in the relationship and was excited to learn that Dr. Clark relied heavily on Martyn Percy’s writings and methods for his thesis. In fact, Percy…
By: Greg on June 7, 2019
Reading into stories has been an aged old past time whether we are talking about the stories of the Bible or stories of history. Our contextual lenses diffuse those stories to understandable and manageable for our brains to grasp and draw analogies from. Recognizing that this is something all of humanity participates in, willingly or…
By: Jason Turbeville on June 7, 2019
Part of my journey to faith was spent in the Episcopalian tradition. My father and step mom went to St. Andrews Church in downtown Ft. Worth and while I lived with them of course, I went with them. My last day inside St. Andrews was my senior year of high school in February of 1989,…
