It’s been a week since I’ve been back in the saddle of running. I took a week of cross training and other types of cardio because of my pinched nerve, but after a week, I just couldn’t take it anymore. My second run back, I decided to push a little further and see if I …
The hardest part of the journey of seminary for me has been and will continue to be unearthing beliefs and challenge myself to ask why I believe what I believe. On top of that is asking myself how I read the Bible. Do I read with answers and ideas already in mind? Do I try …
Are the discussions about social media integration in churches actually following our faith tenets? A church is like a mini company and social media plays into how you promote your church…a policy can to caution against risky online behavior. This doesn’t sound like the faith I am developing in seminary. It sounds fear-based. I understand …
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I love this time of the year. Not only is fall my favorite time of year, but it signifies the start of a new year. Every year of my life, my years have been shifted to run from September to September rather than January to January. So actually, my new year’s resolution are formed during …
I’ve been teaching students who struggle with reading for the past six years and I have to say that each case is unique. There are some similarities between the different readers, but there is a uniqueness to each of their situations that warrants an individual intervention plan. One of the common problems I see is …
As school starts back, I am always thinking about ways to lighten my load (and avoid more pinched nerves in my back!) and enlighten my students. This year, my teacher bag will be include several items that I didn’t even know about last year: My iPad: For the camera, for the apps and for my …
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I’ll be the first to admit that I read books based on friend recommendations, not Amazon’s recommendations. So when I read this: But there may be a hope for aspiring writers, yet. Social networking is bringing the gatekeeper – the human recommendation – back to the forefront of culture consumption, and new models are cropping …
This is a topic we debate quite often in our seminary classes and a topic that society is certainly interested in knowing more about, so when I read: Religiosity is on the decline in the U.S. and atheism is on the rise, according to a new worldwide poll. The poll, called “The Global Index of …
If any of my students have kept those black composition books that we used as writer’s notebooks. I wonder if they run across them in their rooms or closets or under their beds and remember our class community. I wonder if they remember that for that little bit of time they were writers and dreamers. …
