A year ago I wrote our seminary's policy for Generative Artificial Intelligence--- which I will simply call AI here on out because I am lazy. The policy tries to seek a balance. How can one utilize the potential of AI to enhance the learning experience, and NOT allow it to become a substitute for learning? …
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I was listening to sports radio yesterday. The issue brought up was about an audio file of Rick Patino, a very successful college mens basketball coach. He was ripping into his team verbally and swearing at them. The question posed was whether today's student athletes can handle this sort of coaching... or are they now …
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Okay, maybe you see this, or maybe you don't... but my FB friends often put up things like: ---"I am not a supporter of <a particular political figure>, but...." and then goes into a long spiel fawning over that same political figure. The praise is so lacking in balance or reflection that it is all …
Continuing from Part 1 I do think that missionaries are better in proportion to their being good listeners. I sometimes have made the mistake of couching the issue in terms of extrovert and introvert. Some mission boards idealize the missionary who is rather loud, chatty and very active socially. However, the key point I think …
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My wife and I oversee a pastoral counseling center that trains ministers in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE). I also teach some mission courses at a couple of seminaries here in the Philippines. A saying (one I coined as far as I know) is "Nobody Becomes a Pastoral Because They Like to Listen." Similar thoughts could …
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I have never really used the term "Inculturation" before. I was editing a doctoral paper of a friend of mine and saw he was using that term and was getting ready to correct him. He was, however, using the term correctly and I wasn't. Therefore, I am going to put this post here for my …
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