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Adult Learning

A Sketch of an article by Kieran Scott “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Why This Research is Important | Quote from Philip Sheldrake - Comments (0)
Book | Sharing Faith by Thomas Groome - Comments (1)

Animation

Spontaneous Animation - Comments (3)
Failure to Launch | A Super Short Film - Comments (0)
This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
My Life Verse Visualized | Philippians 1:9-11 - Comments (0)

Art

Live Digital Painting at The FEAST - Comments (3)
How Drawing is a Pathway to Wisdom…and Thanksgiving - Comments (1)
Inktober 2018 Gallery - Comments (0)
Painting to Meditate - Comments (2)

Bible

Smashing Plates, Yowies, and Peace - Comments (0)
Preparing to Light the Candle of Peace for Advent 2 - Comments (0)
A Visual Meditation on Thanksgiving - Comments (0)
The Bible Bookshelf Updated | A Cartoonist’s Guide to the Bible - Comments (1)

Bible Doodle

A Visual Meditation on Ephesians 3:14-19 - Comments (0)
Reconnecting to Ephesians - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)

Books

A Visual Book Review of The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt - Comments (0)
Faith Formation in a Secular Age by Andy Root | #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Resources to Study the Bible - Comments (0)
Elizabeth Johnson and The Strength of Her Witness | Notes from the Ministerium - Comments (1)

Books - Adult Learning

A Visual Book Review of The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt - Comments (0)
A Sketch of an article by Kieran Scott “Alternating Currents: Sacramental and Prophetic Imagining and Church Education” - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan - Comments (1)

Books - Epistemology/Hermeneutics

Faith Formation in a Secular Age by Andy Root | #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)
Book | Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jean Grondin - Comments (1)
Putting Willard on the Raft | A Reflection on Gary Black’s book The Theology of Dallas Willard - Comments (3)

Books - Missional Church

Elizabeth Johnson and The Strength of Her Witness | Notes from the Ministerium - Comments (1)
Book | The Mission Table: Renewing Congregation & Community by Stephen P. Bouman - Comments (0)
Book Review | The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age by Dwight Zscheile - Comments (1)
Book | The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin - Comments (0)

Books - Organizational Theory

Book | Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley - Comments (1)

Books - Preaching

Telling the Truth by Frederick Buechner - Comments (0)

Books - Religious Education

Book | Stages of Faith by James Fowler - Comments (3)
Book | Christian Conversion by Walter Conn - Comments (3)
Book | Sharing Faith by Thomas Groome - Comments (1)

Books - Spirituality

Dallas Willard on the Bible and the Word of God - Comments (0)
Embodied Theology - Comments (0)
Book | The Social God and the Relational Self by Stanley Grenz - Comments (0)
Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)

Books - Suburban Studies

Article | Filling the Governance Gap by Allan Wallis - Comments (0)
Book | Metropolitics by Myron Orfield - Comments (0)
Book | Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson - Comments (0)
Book | Building Suburbia by Dolores Hayden - Comments (0)

Books - Trinity

Book | The Social God and the Relational Self by Stanley Grenz - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Entangled Trinity by Ernest Simmons - Comments (4)
Article | A Trinitarian Perspective on Christian Spirituality by Mark McIntosh - Comments (0)

Building Community

Illustrations for Gary Smalley’s LUV Talk - Comments (1)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)

Candidacy

Installing Pastor 2.0 - Comments (0)
The Bishop is Installing Me - Comments (0)
TRP Passed! - Comments (0)
WordPress and Sketchbook – doesn’t every doctoral student use these? - Comments (0)

Caricatures

Caricature of Sherlock and Watson - Comments (1)
Morgan Freeman Caricature - Comments (0)
Caricature of Princess Leia and Han Solo - Comments (0)
Obama Caricature - Comments (1)

character design

lent + catechism + cartoonist - Comments (0)
New Contract For Children’s Illustrations - Comments (0)
Some Recent Artwork - Comments (0)

Children's Books

Latest Batch of Children’s Illustration - Comments (0)
Book Cover Illustration - Comments (0)
More work for Weekly Reader - Comments (1)
Cover Art for Weekly Reader News - Comments (2)

Cognitive Development and the Evolving Self

Tending the Generation Gap in Suburban Congregations - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | In Search of Self edited by van Huyssteen and Wiebe - Comments (2)
The Holy Spirit, Twitter, and Practical Wisdom - Comments (2)

Conversations

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Living with Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD) - Comments (3)
Living with Disagreement | Mapping Out the Conversation - Comments (2)
The Power of Vulnerability - Comments (1)

Devos

Smashing Plates, Yowies, and Peace - Comments (0)
Preparing to Light the Candle of Peace for Advent 2 - Comments (0)
A Visual Meditation on Thanksgiving - Comments (0)
Shabbat Shalom | Standing in Solidarity with our Jewish Siblings - Comments (4)

Dissertation

Confessions of a Post-Doc Pastor - Comments (2)
The Doodled Dissertation - Comments (3)
It is Phinally PhinisheD, and the Geese Don’t Care - Comments (2)
Trinity Sunday - Comments (4)

Family Faith

Good Family Faith Friday - Comments (0)
Your Unique Family - Comments (0)
Between | Why I’m Freaked Out About the Relationship Retreat - Comments (5)
The Family Bath Towel - Comments (0)

Fiction

Pleroma is Ten Years Old, Have You Read It? - Comments (2)
National Novel Writing Month Begins #NaNoWriMo - Comments (0)
A Reader’s Response to Pleroma - Comments (0)
A Big Step for the Nectar Trilogy - Comments (0)

fun stuff

A Blast from the Past - Comments (0)
iPad Sketches of Stations of the Cross used in California Prayer Chapel - Comments (0)
Another Example of the Virtual Body of Christ - Comments (0)
Four Rules for Making Star Wars Great - Comments (0)

Guatemala

Guatemala Day 9: Coming Home - Comments (2)
Guatemala Day 8: In the City - Comments (0)
Guatemala Day 7: Tikal - Comments (0)
Guatemala Day 5 and 6: Maya Itza - Comments (0)

Haiti

Painting a Mural in Haiti - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 7: It is Finished - Comments (0)
Haiti Day 6: Best Day Ever and A Swift Kick to the Head - Comments (1)
Hait Day 5: Will the Real Power Please Stand - Comments (3)

How Do I Fit Project

Another Own Your Faith Video - Comments (0)
Turning the Page in the High School Project - Comments (0)
How Do I Fit Project Website - Comments (1)
Trying to Connect with Youth in a Busy World - Comments (0)

How Do We Think?

Your Brain and a PhD - Comments (0)
Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Finding the Third Way | A Postfoundational Hope for Peace - Comments (1)
The Holy Spirit, Twitter, and Practical Wisdom - Comments (2)

Illustration

Come and See | the Graphic Novel - Comments (7)
The Characters of Wisdom - Comments (0)
Another Piggification - Comments (0)
Two More Pig-Tures - Comments (1)

John 2018

Dying to Live and the Pain of Holy Saturday - Comments (2)
A Visual Meditation on the Resurrection of Jesus in John 20 - Comments (1)
A Visual Meditation on The Crucifixion in John 19:16-37 - Comments (1)
What Were You Expecting? | A Sermon on the Triumphal Entry in John 12:12-27 - Comments (0)

Law and Gospel

A Visual Meditation on Law and Gospel - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 3:1-29 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (1)
The Law and the Promise | Thinking Through Galatians 3 - Comments (0)
A Visual Commentary on Galatians 1:13-17, 2:11-21 from the Narrative Lectionary - Comments (0)

Lecture Notes

The First and Second Use of the Law #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Law and Gospel with Keifert and Jacobson | Session One #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Brian McLaren at MAS Assembly part 2 - Comments (0)
Brian McLaren at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly - Comments (1)

Live Art

Live Digital Painting at The FEAST - Comments (3)
Word Became Flesh Community Art Project - Comments (0)
A Nail-biting Artist-Pastor-Teacher Moment for Pentecost - Comments (0)
Good Friday Painting Video - Comments (0)

Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Living with Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD) - Comments (3)

Living with Disagreement

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Living with Disagreement | Mapping Out the Conversation - Comments (2)
The Power of Vulnerability - Comments (1)
Living with Disagreement | An Open Invitation to Discuss a Difficult Topic - Comments (14)

ministry

Taking Visual Notes for the eFormation18 Conference at Virginia Theological Seminary #eform - Comments (1)
A Word to the White Preacher - Comments (0)
Can I Get a Witness at the Minneapolis Area Synod Assembly #MASassembly - Comments (0)
Reflections on the Experimental Beginnings Class - Comments (17)

Narrative Lectionary Painting Project

Would you Be Willing to Make a One Time Donation to Help this Project? - Comments (0)
Live Painting, Paul Oman, and Drawn to the Light - Comments (0)
Join the Kickstarter and Help Make the Narrative Lectionary Painting Project Happen! - Comments (0)
Behind the Scenes at the Narrative Lectionary Painting Project - Comments (0)

News

What Does it Mean to Be Born Again? | A Visual Guide and Commentary on John 3:1-21 - Comments (3)
Apologies for the Downed Site - Comments (0)
Give the Gift of Learning this Christmas - Comments (0)
Congregation | Class Notes | May 1 - Comments (0)

Non-Fiction

Short, Daily Devotionals for Youth and Families - Comments (0)
Life of Jesus Class Finished - Comments (0)
Upon Bin Laden’s Demise - Comments (0)
Sex, Drugs, and Social Status - Comments (0)

Painter

My Graduate Micki - Comments (0)
Felt Like Painting Tonight - Comments (1)

Personal Journal

It is Phinally PhinisheD, and the Geese Don’t Care - Comments (2)
Trinity Sunday - Comments (4)
Another Imposter Syndrome Moment from My Dissertation Defense #phdchat - Comments (0)
The Final Post for Deep in the Burbs - Comments (0)

Personal Updates

Upon Turning 50 - Comments (2)
My Site is Broken, Please Pray - Comments (1)
Leaving for a Week of Youth Missions - Comments (0)
Going Dark for Three Weeks - Comments (0)

Projects

A Landscape of the Trinity: An Art Project - Comments (0)
Promo Video for Grace Children and Youth Ministry Fair - Comments (0)
Latest Batch of Children’s Illustration - Comments (0)
Project Updates - Comments (0)

Public Speaking

How to Use Word and PowerPoint to Craft a Visually-Oriented Sermon Manuscript - Comments (2)
One Week Left, Then it’s Crank Up the Teaching Machine! - Comments (0)
Two Sermons in Four Days - Comments (0)
Truckin’ to Heaven - Comments (0)

Questions from the Basket...

Questions from the Basket… - Comments (0)

Religious Education

Day One of the Religious Educators Association Conference #REA2016 - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
The Virtual Body of Christ | A Missional Imagination for Community - Comments (1)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)

Research Findings

Theory Matters: Bringing Tanner, Taylor, Kegan, and Grenz into Conversation with the Deep in the Burbs Data - Comments (1)
What Did We Learn About Spiritual Formation? - Comments (0)
An Increased Awareness and Understanding - Comments (0)

Research Methods

The Research Project Design - Comments (0)
Why Did I Choose Participatory Action Research (PAR)? - Comments (0)
Getting Back to the Data - Comments (0)
A Thick Description of the Deep in the Burbs Research Project - Comments (0)

Sermon Sketchbook

A Deeper Advent | Resources for Preaching, Teaching, and Experiencing Advent This Year - Comments (0)
Download PowerPoints for Advent - Comments (0)
Jesus: Suffering Servant or Conquering King? - Comments (0)
How Do We Walk in the Spirit? | A Sketch for This Week’s Sermon - Comments (2)

Sermons

A Deeper Hope | Sermon for Advent 1 from Psalm 25 and Luke 21:25-36 - Comments (0)
Grateful | A Sermon on Generosity and Thanksgiving from Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 26:1-11 - Comments (0)
A Deeper Advent | Resources for Preaching, Teaching, and Experiencing Advent This Year - Comments (0)
Download PowerPoints for Advent - Comments (0)

sermons2009

A Sermon on Hebrews 3 - Comments (0)
Message from Joshua 2 – God Loves Prostitutes - Comments (0)
A Message on Psalm 131 - Comments (0)

sermons2010

Easter Vigil Message - Comments (0)
The Gospel of Grace | A Sermon on 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 - Comments (0)

sermons2011

Four Sermons from the Revised Common Lectionary Year A in the Gospel of Matthew - Comments (0)
The Christmas Promise – A Sermon for Christmas Eve - Comments (0)
Blue Prayer for Advent – A Sermon for Advent 1 - Comments (0)
Worship is Our Response | A Sermon on Matthew 22:15-22 - Comments (0)

sermons2012

The Glory of Christmas | A Sermon on Christmas Morning | Luke 2:8-20 - Comments (0)
Return to Me | A Sermon on Joel 2:12-12, 28-29 | Advent 2 - Comments (0)
Sermon on Daniel in the Lions Den | Daniel 6:6-27 | Advent 1 | #hate2wait - Comments (0)
Ruined and Reconciled: A Sermon on Isaiah 6:1-8 - Comments (0)

sermons2013

Wise men, Really? | A Sermon for Christmas Morning from Matthew 2:1-12 - Comments (0)
Home for Christmas | A Sermon for Advent 3 | Isaiah 55 - Comments (0)
Advent 1 | Firm in Your Faith | A Sermon from Daniel 3:1, 8-30 - Comments (0)
Let Justice Roll Down Like Water | A Sermon from Amos 5:21-24 - Comments (0)

sermons2014

A Light for All | A Sermon for Advent 3 from Isaiah 42:1-9 and Matthew 12:15-21 - Comments (0)
Wealth, Social Class, and the Kingdom of Heaven | A Visual Sermon from Matthew 25:31-46 - Comments (1)
Mirror, Mirror | A Sermon on 2 Samuel 12:1-9 and Psalm 51:1-9 - Comments (0)
Framing the Promise | A Sermon on the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19:4-7; 20:1-17 - Comments (2)

sermons2015

Managing Fear and Doubt | A Sermon for Advent 4 from Luke 1:5-25, 67-80 - Comments (1)
Waiting on God’s Word | A Sermon for Advent 1 from 2 Kings - Comments (0)
The King Who Serves Life | A Sermon on Isaiah 5:1-7; 11:1-5 - Comments (0)
Service: The Antidote for Greed | A Sermon from the Narrative Lectionary on 1 Kings 12 - Comments (1)

sermons2016

Open Hearts, Liberating Spirit | A Sermon from Joel 2 for Advent 2 - Comments (0)
Hope in the Midst of Beasts | A Sermon from Daniel for Advent 1 - Comments (2)
The Making of a Servant | A Narrative Lectionary Sermon from Isaiah 6:1-8 - Comments (0)
How Much Should We Give? | A Sermon on Giving - Comments (0)

sermons2017

Love All | The Final Sermon in Advent Conspiracy - Comments (0)
Sermon from Advent Conspiracy | Spend Less - Comments (0)
Worship Fully | Part One in the Advent Conspiracy Series - Comments (0)
How You Live Matters | A Sermon on Law and Gospel from the CORE Series - Comments (0)

sermons2018

A Deeper Hope | Sermon for Advent 1 from Psalm 25 and Luke 21:25-36 - Comments (0)
Grateful | A Sermon on Generosity and Thanksgiving from Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 26:1-11 - Comments (0)
In _________ We Trust | A Sermon from a Deep Life of Generosity - Comments (0)
Worship Beyond Time, Space, and Religious Boundaries | A Sermon from A Deep Life - Comments (1)

Sketches

Another Meditation on Standing Rock - Comments (0)
A Visual Guide to Joseph’s Story from the Narrative Lectionary Year 3 - Comments (0)
One Said Thank You | A Sketch for Thanksgiving from Luke 17:11-17 - Comments (0)
Law, Gospel, Futurity, and Carrots - Comments (2)

Spiritual Formation

Painting to Meditate - Comments (2)
Would You Like to Take The Journey With Me? - Comments (0)
Taking a Step in the Deep Life - Comments (0)
Deep in the Burbs - Comments (0)

Spirituality in Adult Learning

Faith Formation in a Secular Age by Andy Root | #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Life on the Möbius Strip | A Video by Parker Palmer - Comments (0)

Suburban Studies

Lutherans in the Suburbs - Comments (0)
New Study Shows Major Changes Coming to the Twin Cities Suburbs - Comments (1)
The Geese are Back | An Easter Meditation on Life in the Suburbs - Comments (1)
Experiencing the Disruptive Nature of the Spirit - Comments (3)

Technique

How to Use iPad Procreate with Toon Boom Harmony to Make Simple Animation Interesting - Comments (0)
How to Create a Visual Sermon Using ProCreate and Photoshop - Comments (0)
An Animated Reading of Mark 4:1-20 | The Parable of the Sower and the Four Soils - Comments (0)
Fun with Procreate and Animation Creator HD on the iPad - Comments (0)

Technology for Academics

Confessions of a Post-Doc Pastor - Comments (2)
My Dissertation Blunder and the Geek Bliss Fix - Comments (0)
The Digital Version of the Dissertation is Finished - Comments (0)
How Scrivener is Helping Me Rebuild My Dissertation - Comments (0)

The Journey

The Journey’s End | A Grand Spiritual Adventure through Suburban Time and Space - Comments (1)
Putting the PhD into Practice | Another Video about the Social Trinity - Comments (1)
A Spiritual GPS - Comments (1)
Are the Spiritual Habits, and The Journey, a Form of Narcissism? - Comments (0)

The Missional Church

Unity, Diversity, Interfaith Dialogue, and the Mission of the Church - Comments (0)
Nondual Thinking and the Missional Church - Comments (2)
Visual Notes from the Missional Leadership D.Min. Course - Comments (0)
Changing from the Bottom Up - Comments (1)

The Trinity

Why the Incarnation is So Important - Comments (0)
Entangled in the Trinity - Comments (0)
Putting the PhD into Practice | Another Video about the Social Trinity - Comments (1)
Trinity Knot - Comments (0)

Theology

What is Lutheran Worship? - Comments (0)
God in the End - Comments (0)
Faith Formation in a Secular Age by Andy Root | #visualnotes - Comments (0)
Why the Incarnation is So Important - Comments (0)

Theories of Adult Learning

Spiritual Formation, Adult Learning, and the Entangled Trinity - Comments (0)
Book | The Practice of Communicative Theology by Scharer and Hilberath - Comments (0)
Book | The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan - Comments (1)

Thketches

This, That, and Paradox | A Simple Introduction to Communicative Rationality - Comments (7)
Your Brain and a PhD - Comments (0)
Wealth, Social Class, and the Kingdom of Heaven | A Visual Sermon from Matthew 25:31-46 - Comments (1)
An Animated 1 Corinthians 12 | We are the Body of Christ - Comments (0)

Through the Bible in a Year

Read Through the Bible in 2017 - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 5 – The Point of it All - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 4 – On Your Face! - Comments (0)
Week 50 Day 3 – What’s in Your Letter? - Comments (0)

vlog

A Behind the Scenes Look at Job Week 2: How to Speak in Times of Suffering - Comments (0)
A Father-Son Coffee Talk about…Coffee - Comments (3)
Encouragement in Discouragement - Comments (1)

Writing

Pleroma is Ten Years Old, Have You Read It? - Comments (2)
National Novel Writing Month Begins #NaNoWriMo - Comments (0)
Holy Roadblocks and the Intelligence of Emotions - Comments (0)
Short, Daily Devotionals for Youth and Families - Comments (0)

Youth Ministry

Interfaith Dialogue - Comments (0)
Teaching Luther’s Small Catechism at Camp Wapo - Comments (4)
Middle School and the Good Life - Comments (3)
Connecting to Creation in Suburbia - Comments (0)

Youth News

Celebrating Our Graduates This Morning…and Being a Little Nostalgic - Comments (0)
Can You Help Name This Big Bible Event? - Comments (4)

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