One of my goals throughout the process of getting a PhD has been to always keep the people in the local congregation in mind. It is painful to see someone’s eyes glaze over when I start to talk. That’s when I realize I’ve slipped into academic-speak....
Love Is What Is by Richard Rohr ((from his daily meditation.)) Sunday, November 23, 2014 The core belief of all the great world religions is that the underlying reality is love. Teilhard de Chardin says that “love is the very physical structure of the universe.”...
One possible frame/theme I might explore in my dissertation is the observation that the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-17) demonstrates Trinitarian Praxis. Here is a rough sketch of how I see it working out in the...
Today I typed the final page of audio transcription and loaded the last few emails into NVivo. With these acts I have officially collected all the data for the Deep in the Burbs Research Project. Let us take a moment to reflect. ahhhh. The team met for the first time...
Bible Mania was a one-day event that I taught on October 11, 2014 at Grace Lutheran Church in Andover, MN. The event has been divided into twelve video segments, each approximately 25 minutes in length. This series will guide you through an introduction to the Bible....