I have been reading "Character Theology: Engaging God Through His Cast of Characters," by Tom Steffen and Ray Neu. I hope to have a review done in a couple of weeks. However, I was reading a passage that got me thinking: "Recall Charles Hodge’s perspective that the Bible is a “store-house of facts” and “the …
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My children went to a Christian school in middle and high school. Overall, it was probably a good experience for them. In their previous school, also a Christian school, they were bullied for being "foreign." But the school they transferred to was multi-ethnic and multi-national. They fit in quite well. The school genuinely sought to …
Yeah... How DO we learn. There are all sorts of talks about Learning Styles and Modes of Learning. But in the end, some sort of "philosophy" or training should be better for nurturing change in a trainee. Our Counseling Center provides Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and that has gotten me reflecting on how we learn, …