By: Adam Harris on April 6, 2023
My parents got divorced when I was young, so I never really knew my Father. That is until he came to stay with us for about a month when I was eleven. I was so happy to see him arrive and even happier to see him leave. He was not what I was expecting. He…
By: Esther Edwards on April 6, 2023
“Your Brain at Work” has been extremely beneficial and thought-provoking (no pun intended).[1] Dr. David Rock was able to make a complex topic more understandable for the average person through his well-written use of the stage metaphor. It meets a chronic need for me personally and most people I know who are living their lives…
By: Russell Chun on April 6, 2023
Bondye se plas dous mwen (Creole) or Dieu est mon “sweet spot”(French), God is my “sweet spot” My thoughts on God as my sweet spot. God in my audience and on stage – my director. My prayer. This week, two Haitian women appeared in both my weekly job training class AND my Intermediate Grammar class. …
By: David Beavis on April 6, 2023
Why I Could Never be Elon Musk For better and for worse, Elon Musk has been in the spotlight for years. People are fascinated by the genius billionaire – a real-life Tony Stark. Ferociously driven with intelligence few can parallel, when one thinks of an individual leaving his or her mark on the world, it…
By: Cathy Glei on April 5, 2023
Something to try (from Scene 3). . . Catch yourself trying to do two things at once and slow down instead. [1] Caught! Earlier today, I was in a ZOOM Session, doing a load of laundry, writing out a “to-do” list with my right hand while turning pages in a book with my left. Absolutely…
By: Greg McMullen on April 5, 2023
Daniel Nettle’s research spans across a vast range of fields such as health, psychology, individual differences and personality, and evolutionary sciences as well as in topics such as social inequality, cooperation, deprivation, and biological aging. Having a little more time this week with injuring my hand, I was able to do some deeper research on…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on April 5, 2023
Daniel Nettle in Personality: What makes you the way you are? Reminded me of my interactions and ratings in some of these, like Enneagram, DISC, Myers-Briggs, Maxwell Leadership assessment, and others. I like what he had to say about attachment theory. Attachment theorists argue that the mother-infant bond forms a kind of relationship template which…
By: Eric Basye on April 5, 2023
Dr. David Koyzis received a PhD in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame, where he taught for more than thirty years at Redeemer University College. As stated on Global Scholars Canada, Koyzis’ mission statement is to disseminate to the larger world the riches of a Reformed Christian worldview, especially as it…
By: Andy Hale on April 5, 2023
Where were you on January 6, 2021? Our family was driving back from an incredible National Parks road trip to Utah, where we took in the beauty and serenity of Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and the Grand Canyon. Somewhere between East Texas and North Louisiana, I checked my phone at a gas…
By: Scott Dickie on April 4, 2023
That title is a bit of an overstatement, but I’m definitely not at my best. This has been a growing realization for me over the past year or so. I’m not as articulate as I would like to be, my thinking is a bit muddled (or more muddled than usual!) and my motivation is lacking.…
By: Kristy Newport on April 4, 2023
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk is the “go to” book on trauma and interventions in treating those who have suffered from horrible events. I thoroughly enjoyed taking the online course Dr. Van Der Kolk provides and learning the interventions and theories he proposes for a practitioner’s clinical use. Dr. Van…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on April 4, 2023
There are times when my brain is not working at all or in “time-out”. My recall is just not what it used to be. I am easily distracted, and I am forgetful. The embarrassing truth is that I probably spend more time looking for my cell phone than I do actually using it. I am…
By: Alana Hayes on April 4, 2023
It’s not easy to navigate the murky waters of personality because the reality is that people are messy. We are all imperfect humans trying to make sense of a very convoluted world. People also vary greatly in their characteristics, behaviors, and life experiences which allows for actions and reactions to be shown or expressed differently.…
By: Kim Sanford on April 3, 2023
David Rock wins the prize for “Most Immediately Applicable Book We’ve Read.” I read Your Brain at Work [1] last week and sat with it before tackling this blog post (thank you, spring break, for that extra time!). In those few days, I found myself applying Rock’s reflections in a surprising number of ways. 1. When…
By: Tim Clark on April 3, 2023
“Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10 It’s an open secret among our church staff that if you’re in the car when I’m driving, you are taking your life into your own hands. My wife tells me it’s not because I’m a bad driver, but because I am a fast driver. My…
By: Roy Gruber on April 3, 2023
David Koyzis is a Political Science Professor and a Global Scholar since 2019. He holds a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from Notre Dame. His book, Political Visions & Illusions, seeks to help Christians think through and navigate the complexities of faith and political engagement. Since I did not know what being a Global…
By: Jennifer Vernam on April 3, 2023
In week 11 of our blog posts, Kim shared with us a thought “God made the brain so we shouldn’t be surprised that neuroscience and theology can overlap.”[1] The reading from this week in Your Brain at Work[2] offered me another chapter in this area of discovery. David Rock develops an analogy of our minds…
By: John Fehlen on April 3, 2023
This is a recent day in the life of MY Brain… 0615 hours (that’s 6:15 am in military time, which makes this whole post sound way more legit): I woke up, without my alarm, having sensed the Lord’s voice to my heart saying, “Come and be with me.” So I got up, grabbed my Bible…
By: Kally Elliott on April 3, 2023
It’s after 2pm and I’m just sitting down to write this blog post. I know better than to try to write cohesively after 2pm. The afternoon is not a good time for me to try to think creatively or even to try to organize my simple thoughts into a readable blog post. By 2pm I’ve…
By: Laura Fleetwood on April 3, 2023
I saw a meme last week that said, “Don’t work God into your schedule. Work your schedule around God.” That’s a good introductory thought for a review of Vincent Miller’s book, Consuming Religion. This book examines two forces that are at work in the world: religion and consumerism and how they interact with each other.…
