I do like Venn Diagrams--- as well as quadrants and pretty much any other diagram that presents data or sets in a way that gives clarity. Jackson Wu had one I really liked in his article, "Why has the Church Lost "Face"? Examining Our Blindspot About Honor and Shame." It is an interesting article... You …
Month: May 2019
Virtual Reality Baptism (VRB)
My daughter showed me a thing that has been making the rounds on various parts of the web. It was a baptism being done in "virtual reality." The baptism wasn't done in the real world utilizing real water and real physical bodies. Rather it was being done with "avatars" in a virtual/digital environment. I hadn't …
Your Greatest Strength is….
We do a number of tests at our counseling center. We have partners in our work who are psychometricians, but we generally have little to do with tests that are built around DSM-V. We tend to focus on tests that are more valuable in pastoral counseling, and ones that lead more towards conversation than formal …
Two Prayers of Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
O Lord, you have called me to open my hand, that you might fill it: but I would not open it; I held the world fast, and kept my hand shut, and would not let it go. But you alone can open it for me; not my hand only, but my mouth; not my mouth, …
Better Questions
I have said before that a doctorate in theology is not likely to mean that you have better answers, but hopefully it does mean that you have better questions.
Communal Music
I am pastoring a young churchplant right now here in Baguio, and we are diverse in age, status, and ethnicity. One of the challenges we have is music. What music should we use in church. A couple of decades ago, a large percentage of Evangelical churches in the Philippines suddenly turned over their music to …
Some Models of Chaplaincy
The Presentation is available on Slideshare.