Archive for the 'Faith development' Category

Presbyterian seminary publishes online “church and culture” magazine

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

I got on the mailing list for Columbia Theological Seminary (Flash required; bad bad bad!) of Decatur, Georgia more than a decade ago when I was looking for a theological school, and bless their hearts they’ve followed me for seven addresses since.

Now they’re publishing a rather interesting looking online magazine called @ This Point which, […]

Quakers or UUs: who develop “stayers” better?

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

There’s a “comment colloquy” brewing (or hiding) in a recent post about Quaker faith formation and how it does or does not promote life-long adherance. Take a look

100 sq ft living in Hong Kong: can pictures cultivate empathy?

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

I have been long fascinated about people who manage to live in unusual or tiny dwellings. Where we live deeply shapes how we live, and to draw a biological metaphor, those who can or must live in extraordinary situations.

Michael Wolf made a photo exhibit called 100×100 depicting residents of (one of) Hong Kong’s oldest public […]

Candid lay leadership plan from Episcopalian chaplaincies bishop

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Another reason I like out-of-the-way churches (if not so out of the way as Tristan da Cunha or South Georgia Island) is that they tend to cut through to essentials. If there are only a scant number of English speaking Christians in Country X, you had better not appeal to a strict form of churchmanship […]

On progressive religious education

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I meant to highlight this weeks ago, but it was right when I was going to Georgia for my grandmother’s memorial service. Dan Harper wrote an excellent article and persuasive advocating progressive religious education.

He highlights the shortage of resources in the field, which prompted me to buy a book on the subject, namely Sherwood Gates’s […]

Not even a whole room Sunday School

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I know the term “Sunday School” is deprecated in some areas, but the image of the “one room Sunday School” is very evocative of the kind of childhood faith development program a lot of little churches — or demographically old churches — have, whatever their denomination. But what if you’re in a church — except […]

Personal M.Div.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Now that I’ve gotten a new feed reader, I can scan through fresh RSS feeds even faster, and pick up some blogs that I had to drop from being overwhelmed. One of this second class is the ChangeThis newsletter, which points to new manifesto titles at ChangeThis.com. A manifesto is a prima facie argument and […]

New UU resource site

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

Peter Bowen, no stranger to the UU blogosphere and small group movements, has debuted his new site:

UU Planet

Brain-based learning article

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

I found an interesting little article about how our brains learn faith. Nothing new, but a tidy package. Refers to Marva Dawn, who has gotten a little bit of UU blog coverage lately.

From the online version of Lutheran Partners, a publication of the ELCA Division for Ministry: Brain-Based Faith Development by Vicky Goplin.

Fabricating faith

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

Nouslife, written by Durham, England based “husband; a father; a priest” Andii Bowsher, is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs because of the quirky, almost Whole Earth Catalog way he introduces topics, including a technological development, namely instant fabrication of goods.

So that’s what I thought I was getting at The Ink-Jet Future because […]