Recently I took an online course, led by Missiologist Tom Steffen called "Teaching in Oral Cultures." It is part of a collection of online courses under "Ephesiology Master Classes." that is overseen by Missions Professor Michael Cooper of Kairos University. Under Ephesiology Master Classes, I took one regular course, "Teaching in Oral Cultures" (as noted …
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In my previous post, I gave the link to the Amazon.com page for my updated book on Cultural Anthropology. However, that is for the paperback. Sorry, but if you want the paperback book, you need to pay for the paper, printing, and shipping. No choice. But, if you want an electronic copy of the book. …
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Many (most?) of you are aware of the report that came out on Ravi Zacharias and some of his sexual misconduct (and the associated misuse of funds, as well as deception, to maintain the misconduct). I have friends who are real fans of Ravi, but I must admit I don't really know much of his …
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This website is not generally my conversation with the world. For the most part if I want to talk to people, I talk to them face-to-face or through direct emails or messaging. I put up my "musings" on topics of Christian missions, theology, and ministry and people can read them or not. At the same …
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I am reading the book "Who Needs Theology?" by Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson. I am almost half-way through and it is a good read so far. I have seen some mixed reviews so possibly their complaints will hold more weight in the second half. Smooth sailing so far. Grenz and Olson note several reasons …
It took something like 7 years, but I finally have a physical copy of my book in my hands. Feels good.
Back around 2014 or so I began writing a book on Theology of Missions. I took some of those for a class I was teaching n Mission Theology. After completion of the class, I got all excited about finishing the book. However, then I was asked to teach a class on Interreligious Dialogue. Being in …
I am not a narrative theologian. I am not ever all that sure what training I would need to earn that title. However, I am interested in storying and orality and what Tom Steffen and William Bjoraker calls "oral hermeneutics." I have written a couple of articles in the last few weeks. One of them …
I was looking up the proverb "God Helps Those Who Help Themselves." I was pretty sure that Benjamin Franklin originally said it. However, that eventually led me (as so many roads do) to the Wikipedia article and Wiktionary article, "God Helps Those Who Help Themselves." There I found that Benjamin Franklin was not the first …
It feels like it is the time to throw myself into reading and writing and teaching in 2023. 2020 through 2022 were the years of pandemic and family issues. It looks like the pandemic is over (being replaced by endemic) while most of our family challenges are becoming ironed out. In fact, two major challenges …
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