By: Mike on October 18, 2018
William Dyrness’ Visual Faith challenges evangelical Protestant leaders to add an artistic eye-lens when viewing how to do church and claims that art reflects order and wholeness to God’s creation. I immediately associated with the visual art forms connected with Scripture. For example, “you can’t walk on water if you don’t get out of the…
By: Mark Petersen on October 18, 2018
Some of you may remember that I am co-sponsoring the Spark Initiative, a granting and mentoring opportunity for millennial social innovators who are paired with millennial givers. We will be meeting this weekend at the Leadership Studio at Muskoka Woods located two hours north of Toronto. As a part of this season’s work, all of…
By: Rhonda Davis on October 18, 2018
During our trip to Hong Kong, I heard many of you discussing the Enneagram, and various reflections on your “2-ness” or “8-ness.” I was curious about this, so I decided to take the assessment myself.[1] My result: over-the-top-3. After assessing my type, I fell down the rabbit hole of discovery. Apparently, this is common for…
By: Dave Watermulder on October 18, 2018
Around the world each week, Christian people and churches gather to worship. They do so in cathedrals and mega-churches, in neighborhood parishes and pubs, in homes and school cafeterias. Baskin-Robbins ice cream only has 31 flavors, but Christian churches come in way more varieties than that! Each tradition within the larger Christian body has its…
By: Chris Pritchett on October 18, 2018
The driving questions of Dyrness’ Visual Faith assume an unfortunate and erroneous relationship between art and the Christian faith. It strikes me that this book, and Dr. Dyrness’ influence at the Brehm Center at Fuller over the past eighteen years have essentially made the book irrelevant anymore. There is a strong Reformed tradition at Fuller Seminary,…
By: Harry Edwards on October 18, 2018
For as long as I can remember, writing well has always been a roadblock to pursuing advanced degrees—at least the kind of writing required to pass courses. Secondary education and the years in college did not prepare me well for the task of writing. Sure, we had English, Literature, Grammar, but nothing on how to…
By: Jennifer Williamson on October 18, 2018
I am convinced that the Church cannot continue to do global missions in the 21st century as she did in the 20th century. The world is not the same as it was 100 or even 50 years ago, and as culture and context changes, so must the means through which we proclaim the unchanging gospel…
By: Sean Dean on October 18, 2018
There is a point in the movie Patch Adams where Patch and Carin are talking about Patch’s epiphany about how medicine should work. Carin expresses her distrust in Patch’s positive outlook on medicine, because people hurt people. Patch’s response always gets me, he asks her “and who hurt you?”. In most of our society this…
By: Andrea Lathrop on October 18, 2018
Derek Rowntree did something early on in Learn How to Study: Developing the study skills and approaches to learning that will help you succeed in university[1]that got me thinking about empathy. He convinced me in his introduction that he truly cared about my success as a student. He even expressed his desire to personally coach…
By: Digby Wilkinson on October 18, 2018
I’m writing this on a plane to Australia, while watching Jurassic World (that’s honesty and multitasking!). Ok, before I wax eloquent on Rountree’s helpful little book, LEARN HOW TO STUDY: Developing the study skills and approaches to learning that will help you succeed in university, [1] I thought it would be interesting to read about…
By: Dan Kreiss on October 17, 2018
What is it that makes visual art worshipful? Is it reliant upon the faith of the artist? Is it the subject matter? Perhaps it must have a Biblical theme? Or maybe it must cause admirers to have a moving experience of God? The image below is the famous painting by Pablo Picasso entitled Guernica. It…
By: Rev Jacob Bolton on October 17, 2018
“Why are you reading this paragraph? It is not lettered A, B, or C, so it does not correspond with any of the answers. If you want to get the best out of a programme (or any other reading for that matter) you must watch out for clues that will help you skip material you…
By: Mario Hood on October 17, 2018
The biggest takeaway from reading, Learn How to Study by Rowntree is the effectiveness of planning out your study time. It has been said in leadership teachings to focus on your strengths and not your weakness.[1] While this is a famous saying and motivates people to do their best while not worrying about their weakness,…
By: John Muhanji on October 16, 2018
We have an African saying in Swahili that says that “ Tembea uone mengi” (travel and see more), resonate with me as we went to Hong Kong. It was a journey to the East that was with full of many surprises and wonders that one would hardly see in the part of African, I was…
By: Shermika Harvey on October 14, 2018
The world of education has been turned on its head, and an end has to come to this madness! Firstly with the introduction of “How to Read A Book” by Adler & VanDoren forced a reboot of the cerebrum to adjust to the new levels of reading. Now, this, “How to Talk About A Book…
By: Wallace Kamau on October 12, 2018
I have always had it very easy getting my books on Amazon and mostly in kindle version and earned some reasonable credit to enable me get some free books to my credit. It was therefore with such confidence that I put off acquiring the book “How to Talk About Books that you Haven’t Read” by…
By: Kyle Chalko on October 12, 2018
The concept of deep work made sense with what we hear from those critiquing our high tech fast paced world. It’s not too different from the resistance we heard from the romanticists as the world hurled forth through the industrial revolution. We move too quickly, and we miss things around us. Deep work discussed not…
By: Rhonda Davis on October 12, 2018
I have been accused of suffering from frequent amnesia. Unfortunately, I must plead guilty to the accusation. For instance, I recently watched one of the many super hero movies that are so popular in my house full of boys. When it was over, I said, “That one was pretty good. I liked it better than…
By: Chris Pritchett on October 12, 2018
(**My apologies for this being a day late. I have been out all week again with a spine issue. Scoliosis in my neck caused a muscle tear. Good times.) Last year, Cal Newport’s Deep Workwas listed on a proposed reading list for class that then was postponed until this week. I noticed the title…
By: Jason Turbeville on October 12, 2018
Picking up Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport I was intrigued. What exactly was Deep Work and how would it apply to me. (I’ll be back later). Ok, I am back I had to check facebook. Newport argues, and rightly so, that the best work is done without distractions.…
