Category: Christianity
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A thing learned… a joy, a sorrow
Time moves on- a restless, ever moving, ever changing, never changing entity, one we cannot ignore or hide from. “From that one experience, a finger touching a flame, a person learns countless things.”~ A New Culture of Learning It has been a joy to share my blog in a new…
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Trade of the internet-privacy for agency
How do we gain agency in a world that seems to take joy in making more rules and taking away more personal freedom in the name of communal freedoms? What would our world look like right now without the internet? What has gotten better because of the internet? Have we…
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Knowing how…
“Knowing how is more important than simply knowing that.” ~Mary Hess Indeed. For years I knew that rearing children is hard. Knowing how it is hard is what helps me get through it. It is in the knowing how that I am able to find what is going wrong and…
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Exclusive holidays…why Christmas and Thanksgiving SHOULD overlap
There are a lot of holidays that really don’t go together. St Patrick’s day and Halloween, for example. There are even a few that bump up against each other that don’t quite go together either, like St Patty’s and Easter (some years). Many argue that Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas don’t…
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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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Collective Learning and Cohorts- A new way to Mastering Divinity
“As the name implies, it is a collection of people, skills, and talent that produces a result greater than the sum of its parts.” In their book, A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown take on the idea of learning in a ‘world of constant change’.…
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Syria, Anthony Weiner and 9/11… what a combo
Even for those not from New York, we all know who Anthony Weiner is. Who hasn’t heard the news of the talented young politician who screwed himself over when he decided to be unfaithful to his wife through sex-ting…twice. As you all know, he lost his bid for election in…
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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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Being Less Perfect, More Human, Hope…. and M.E.
Don’t get me wrong. There are days, where no one can do right, nothing goes right and the world is against me. Those days remind me of a song my mom used to sing to me when I was in those moods. Of course, I just looked up the lyrics…
Mistress of Divinity 