Yesterday evening, I was walking my dog and listening to Brian Koppelman's EXCELLENT podcast, The Moment,... (Koppelman's podcast is one of the great delights of the internet.  If you communicate with people for a living--sales, education, any type of writing, ministry, etc.--you MUST listen to Koppelman's podcast.  Every episode is filled with provocative, brilliant ideas that can … Continue reading @BrianKoppelman, Kerry Bishe, Neuroscience, and Ultimate Reality

I was inspired to do this by Bartholomew & Goheen's THE DRAMA OF SCRIPTURE, which made narrative biblical theology understandable, and Brian Koppelman's SIX SECOND SCREENWRITING LESSONS. Along with Koppelman's podcast, both are essential tools for communicating biblical theology today. Here are the Vines: https://vine.co/v/euEigYneUZn https://vine.co/v/euEiU9QXtrj https://vine.co/v/euEJAvTE3P2 https://vine.co/v/euEJjOLBmjJ https://vine.co/v/euE1hpd3KWU https://vine.co/v/euE10Dz7Vhp https://vine.co/v/euEnAb9UJzw https://vine.co/v/euErbwnB0VT https://vine.co/v/euEr6PeZ7QF https://vine.co/v/euErFlztEtp https://vine.co/v/euE6qA2jOUa … Continue reading First Run of Vine Notes 

This is the outline for my Vine series, Theophilus's Notes.  The series is an ongoing set of 6-second lectures in biblical theology.  I hope to start posting Vines later today.  I am trying to work out a numbering / outline system, so that any interested Vine viewer can see the posts on a particular topic … Continue reading Outline for Theophilus’s Notes (Vine Series)

Great stuff from The Chronicle:http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2015/03/31/tools-for-leaders-5-tables-to-expand-your-thinking/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Scattershooting = throwing ideas together to see what develops. I'm working at rethinking our model for Christian higher education, rising out of the idea of postmodern Christianity as Christianity is exile. I know of four models of private, religion-based education that are analogous to what I'm envisioning. These are systems that go from elementary through post-secondary & … Continue reading Scattershooting: Private, Religion-Based Education 

Still working; I've got the material written, just haven't had a chance to put it in publishable shape. Crazy week, many meetings.

Some disconnected thoughts in search of a thread: I've been reading Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, where he describes the seeds of the terror attacks of 9-11-01.  One of the things he describes, not a central theme but a recurring motif, is the Islamic educational system and how the Islamists--Qutb, al-Zawahiri, bin Laden--understood its role and … Continue reading Christianity in Exile and Christian Higher Education

My friend, Paula Williams, blogs about her views on scripture and same-sex relationships. A few things I agree with, some I do not, but worth considering throughout.