Horses have had an important role in human civilization since... well... human civilization. They have often been used to help us understand our humanity, or more often our inhumanity (such as in Gulliver's Travels, Black Beauty, and War Horse). You can delve into them on your own. I will place here a couple of old …
Month: December 2015
Fear, Anger, and Power. Part 2
Since this is Part 2, you may want to consider reading Part 1 first. It was built around the issue of Angry, Angry Christians... and that some of it stems from Fear and Mistrust. I think that is very true, but I think there is more. I believe that some stems from what I described …
Fear, Anger, and Power. Part 1
I was reading an FB post by Ptr. Bill Nieporte, and I felt it had a lot of what I wanted to talk about because of all the madness with bombings and shootings, as well as angry and/or violent rhetoric. You can see more of his writings if you CLICK HERE. Here is his post. …
“Walking With” as Metaphor for Missions
In my Theology of Missions class, I asked my students to present their metaphor for missions. We do that for pastoral care in CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) but this is my first time doing it for a Missions class. A metaphor links together two disparate things... typically one abstract, and one concrete. I shared my …
… But We Are Keeping the Spam Cans
In the words of George Carlin, "A house is just a place to keep your stuff, while you go out and get more stuff." That view starts to unravel when one has to move to a smaller place. We will be selling our house, prayerfully, in the next few months here in the Philippines, as …
The Science of Persuasion | Ideapod
This is a cleverly hand drawn animated video depicting Dr Robert Cialdini’s Six Weapons of Influence as popularised in his book Influence, Science and Practice. The video introduces you or reinforces, the Six Principles of Persuasion, which are:Reciprocity: People are more likely to say “yes” to those that they owe, especially in the context of …