Nov 30
That’s just my box talking: theology and creativity
Practically speaking, a lot of Christians think of theology like a box.
They think it forms the walls and lid for our minds and souls. The box shelters us from evil. Creativity — thinking outside the box — represents some kind of disruptive assault on all that is right and good.
We Christians have a hard time knowing when to be orthodox and when to be groundbreaking. There’s not much room for creativity when it comes to theology. It’s a set system. And that’s ok. But, it’s harmful to let our fixed theology calcify our minds.
The easy and lazy path is to be conservative in everything and fight change of every kind.
If you’re the kind of person that is threatend by change, I’m not judging you. I’m just inviting you to consider that you’re predisposition to favor the status quo (to be conservative) may be the function of other factors — your personality, your past experiences, your personal preferences.
In other words, if you don’t like Jackson Pollock, it’s not God’s fault. Read more
Teaching to Preach
The project of learning has changed fundamentally in the past few decades. Not too long ago, much of education was a matter of learning how to find information. That’s no longer the case.
Thanks to the advent of the Internet, locating a wealth of information on any topic is as quick and easy as tapping a few words into your web browser.
Finding information is easy. Figuring out what to do with it is the new challenge. What sources are trustworthy? How do I prioritize what I find? What is the difference between fact and opinion? These are the kind of questions a contemporary education must prepare the learner to answer. Read more
evernote + scanner = clean desk
It also means a cloud-based, indexed, searchable library that’s accessible from my laptop, desktop and work machines. And my phone. And anywhere with Internet.
Not to mention a clean place to set my coffee mug.
How to wrap a blog
As Sarah learned last week, blogs can make great birthday presents — especially when dozens of sweet friends pitch in to make it a blog party.
There’s just one problem with blogs. They’re famously difficult to wrap. Read more
Oct 17
it is the road
“This life…is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not finished but it is going on. This is not the end but it is the road… — Martin Luther
