Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, Part 3 of 5 Geoff, teaching pastor at Life on the Vine Church and a colleague of mine at Northern Seminary, participates as well in Missio Alliance. Falsely accused, John Anderton is a fugitive trying to figure out the truth behind a crime he hasn’t even committed yet. In 2054, Washington, D.C. has been murder free for six years because the controversial “PreCrime Police Force”, using three mutant-humans who see the future, catches suspects before... Read more
Today is the first day of classes at Northern Seminary, the beginning of the 101st year of Northern and the beginning of my second year at Northern. I have been asked this year over and over about teaching seminary students at Northern, so here are my reflections — under this one: “A great and satisfying year!” First, I want to tell you how splendid the relationships are at Northern among the faculty. We are friends and we are colleagues and... Read more
From Simplicity in the Suburbs: What are your policies? I’ve written before about our unending conversations about social media. And honestly it merits a lot of discussion. New apps and social networking programs are coming out all the time and because many times kids are quicker at picking these things up than us adults it’s easy to be in the dark. I hear a lot of parents concerned about their kids seeing or finding porn via the computer or other... Read more
By Alice Shirey at Leadership Journal One man in my church, an introverted college librarian, is a deep stream of faith. Our church is bustling and noisy though, and he’s quiet. The ways he shows us God are often overlooked. But a while back, we started to pay more attention. As we looked, we saw a man of serious faith. As he made his way through a leadership class and served on a spiritual growth team, several of us began... Read more
Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
From Slate: For a year or two there, free online classes seemed like they just might be the future of higher education. Why, some influential computer scientists wondered, should there be thousands of colleges and universities around the country all teaching the same classes to small groups of students, when you could get one brilliant professor to teach the material to the whole world at once via the Internet? In a March 2012 Wired cover story about the phenomenon, Udacity founder and... Read more
Excellent article brought to my attention about teachers and introversion: On his third day as a teacher, John Spencer lost his temper entirely. His students were working on a collage project, and the classroom was full of ebullient cutting, gluing and painting. Not wanting to dampen the children’s creativity, Spencer had avoided overburdening them with rules about movement or volume. And so spirits drifted higher and higher, and noise levels became correspondingly louder and louder. “I just lost it,” Spencer... Read more
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Because of travel to speaking events I will not have Weekly Meanderings today, and probably not next week, but instead we’ll have a few links scattered throughout the morning. Enjoy one at a time. From AP News: A fund for a homeless man who turned in a backpack with more than $40,000 inside has collected nearly $98,000 – an overwhelming response that is a “statement to everyone in America,” according to the man who started the donation drive. Glen James... Read more
From NPR: An all-digital public library is opening today, as officials in Bexar County, Texas, celebrate the opening of the BiblioTech library. The facility offers about 10,000 free e-books for the 1.7 million residents of the county, which includes San Antonio. On its website, the Bexar County BiblioTech library explains how its patrons can access free eBooks and audio books. To read an eBook on their own device, users must have the 3M Cloud Library app, which they can link to their... Read more
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