We’ve known since the earliest memory experiments (or more personally, I’ve known since the first weeks of my first Psychology course) that left to themselves memories of teaching wither fast. While the shallow “forgetting curves” at the top do not look too bad, the typical case is nearer the bottom one. In bad cases 50% [...]
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I’ve been too busy today trying to incorporate dead and still living German scholars into my reading of Amos that I have not read my RSS feeds, but I took a few minutes out to Facebook, and saw Bill’s post “Y Jnny Cnt Rd d Bbl“. He mentioned my how not to read books (Thanks [...]
As part of my preparation for co-teaching a course on Isaiah and Empire next semester I am reading (as opposed to not-reading) He briefly discusses Jewish diasporic life and contrasts this with Zionism, and then moves on to consider various resources for Christian diasporic (as opposed to Constantinian/imperial) theology and life. His suggestions include the [...]
[Repost from old blog, to allow reference here in a later post.] Good students avoid reading books. To explain this I need to start by describing how average students read, so you will understand what I mean. The average student faced with a book reads it. They begin at the beginning (or more likely at [...]
This is my third contribution to the mission trips conversation. This particular conversation (and there are/have been of course many earlier ones ;) was started by Vinoth Ramachandra’s post: Who Says “No” to “Mission Trips”? If you have not read that read it before reading on… I was pointed to that post by y colleague Jonathan [...]
The latest Tyndale Tech email just arrived. I do not usually repeat them here, I reckon if you are interested you subscribe! But this one has a much wider than usual potential readership. In it David Instone-Brewer of Tyndale House, Cambridge presents a pretty full list of the remarkable range of online or freely downloadable [...]
William Black, who writes his wise and often amusing reflections on church, life, theological education and everything Onesimus Online from Kenya. Has a post Call It Big, Large, Even Mega – Just Don’t Call It a Church that takes onthe question of church size. Since William reads his Bible few in the business of growing [...]
As an INFP (on the MBTI) I naturally tend to avoid obvious solutions in favour of more “creative” ones – often to the exasperation of innocent bystanders, like parents, spouse, colleagues and in more recent days children. As a preacher, this tendency means that I have seldom treated the familiar Sunday School Story passages. I [...]
I’ve been podcasting my way through the E100 (100 “essential” Bible readings designed to give a good overview introduction to the Bible). Today we got to Exodus 12: E100-19: Exodus12: A great festival, but a huge theological problem. I faced a dillemma, the podcasts are billed as 5 minute Bible, so I can’t go much over [...]
Thanks to Jonathan who pointed to this: Who Says “No” to “Mission Trips”? I had not found Sri Lankan theologian Vinoth Ramachandra‘s site. It is full of excellent stuff. In this post, the description of many mission trips as attempts to make a holiday sound holy is so true. It raises sharply issues at the [...]
