God in ordinary words: How the Bible speaks of the divine
The Bible's images for God must be taken in an analogical sense. Yet the Bible exhibits no anxiety about using them.
The Bible's images for God must be taken in an analogical sense. Yet the Bible exhibits no anxiety about using them.
My Asperger's and my ministry
A pet peeve of mine is the pigeonholing of authors—especially the label "nature writers" inflicted on certain writers of immense spiritual power.
Karl Ove Knausgaard forced me to cancel six months of my life in order to fixate on 30 years of his.
Ministry is incarnationally specific. Pastors are called to see their place and people with God's "lover's eye," and to love them for their particularity.
Past efforts at "character education" have operated with a shallow understanding of character. The Expeditionary Learning model goes deeper.
Read the main article on the Expeditionary Learning model.
Seven Laws of Salem
These educational principles, influential in the development of Expeditionary Learning in the United States, were developed by Kurt Hahn at the Salem Castle School in Germany in about 1930.
1. Provide young people the chance to discover themselves and face challenges.
2. Provide young people with the experience of both victory and defeat.