Category: Community
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The New Introvert- or rather "Net-rovert"
“It requires more work on the part of networked individuals to make their way successfully in an always-on, quickly moving world, and a new set of norms and skills-just as the transition from rural, agrarian life to urban, industrial life required.” In his book, NetSmart, How to Thrive Online, Howard…
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The Hopeful Side of Experience
The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side. I live my life…
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Do I know something new?
A couple years ago, I read this competency for my Ed I class as a new seminary student: Familiar with basic faith nurture and learning theories: faith development over the life cycle, multiple intelligences, constructivist learning design (eg Parker Palmer’s community of truth model), developmental learning principles, cross cultural learning,…
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What does real love look like? Seminary, Cohorts and M.E.
What does love with forbearance and forgiveness look like? What does love lived with passion and open eyes look like? Can the two be one? My cohort may never forgive me for this one, but I pray they ‘get’ it… In fact, I am pretty sure they will. In my…
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He was Just an ICE man.
“He was just an iceman” When George Marion Mason died in the mid 1940’s the crowd spilled out onto the street in front of the mortuary. When they drove to the cemetery, there were over 150 cars in the processional and at least that many at the cemetery when they…
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Amid the boxes and packing paper
Lately it seems my blogs have ended up in my seminary blog, but today, this is just about me and my life. Not about how it works with seminary. Today, it is about the fact I sit in this house, as it is almost empty of our things; things that…
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Halloween or Trick or Treat Deferred? How could they…Not?
My two cents- for what it is worth :Lots of towns move trick or treat to a night that is better. They don’t move Halloween. Just trick or treat- a dangerous night. I grew up all over and most of the places moved it if it was during the week–…
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question
Originally posted and written 2-19-2009 I hear this friend,her mom is dying.Soon she will no longer hold her mommy. I watch the tv, stories of reaching, grasping, desperation and I think…how horrible for them. I know divorce anddeath and poverty are all around, most times not so silent. My…
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it feels like the first time- all over again- starting a new degree
You would think that once you have been to a couple of colleges, they all would start to have a large degree of commonality. Not so. I am floundering around again to learn new terms for a new college and, in the mindset of BK, doing it “their way.” Let…
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facebook gave me roots
We hear it all the time, “facebook ruined my marriage, my friendship, got me fired…”. Well apart from the fact that a computer program cannot do those things, I am here to say that facebook has done something really good, really true, of value, of moment, in my life. I…
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