- I am (an organized) ENFP, Hear me Rawr; or, OT Bible Study Mapping Pardon me as I assert my personality type, for a moment. I am, in fact, an organized ENFP. “ENFP” is one of 16 personality types born from the Myers Briggs Assessment. (To summarize in brief, Myers Briggs itself is largely derived from Carl Jung’s psychological theories.) You must know that ENFPs are often known for […]
- Lawful/awful. I’m safe and snug back in Pasadena. And today I made my way through a three hour midterm essay exam. I wrote out a full 10 pages (by hand) all about Christ Transforming Culture and Anabaptists and oh our Postmodern Fragmented Selves. The material was interesting enough, but I really think such three hour things […]
- A Janela It took me two quarters to learn that Fuller’s campus (unofficially) extends to The Zephyr, a coffeehouse about four miles east. At Zephyr they play excellent music on the speakers. The coffee is good. They have big, cushy chairs, and interesting art on the walls. And today I realized just how lovely are their windowsills. […]
- Unpicked, Day seven. I was wandering through the Fuller library on day seven, and this group of books felt like an appropriate parody of Christian education. Perhaps we need a better paradigm of what it means to educate the whole self, rather than just engaging the mind. That was, in part, what led to the real photo on […]
- Where’s Nelly? Presenting, Fuller’s 2007 School of Intercultural Studies. A special haiku award goes to ye who finds me the fastest, and scribes it upon the comments. I will write a haiku in honor of you and post it for all of blogdom. (Hint: I am partially hidden behind one very tall human.) As a way of […]
- Mathspeak for Christians: Bounded-sets [I’m going to start posting bits of what I’ve been learning in my classes, in case you’re interested. If my language starts sounding pretentious and annoyingly academic, please stop me.] Here is something I’m chewing on from a book by Paul Hiebert: What are the consequences of defining Christianity as a bounded-set? In the West, […]
- Kiss My Brain My brain needs a smooch. Or a synapse-massage, perhaps. I’m still in Pasadena finishing up the last three days of a two week intensive at Fuller. And I’m knee-deep in excellent books for the two courses I’m working on this quarter: Ministering to Street Kids and Contemporary Culture in Missiological Perspective (a.k.a. “Our culture is […]
- Full at Fuller I am sitting on a comfy leather chair in Fuller’s Kreyssler’s Hall. K. Hall is Fuller’s Student Center where folk come to chat/study/nap. It reminds me of the colonial houses in Charles County, where I grew up. Inside there’s loads of these comfy leather chairs and free internet. Outside there is a vicious game of […]
- 10 Books for 2007 I’m little disappointed with myself that I still haven’t finished part deux of that Militancy of Worship post. But in the meantime, I’d like to celebrate two things with you. One. Twenty-four days into 2007, and I’ve still consumed zero drops of high-test coffee! I think my body is less mad at me now. In […]