Archive for 'The Practicing Church'
Atheist Outreach To Heaven Bound Pet Owners
August 27, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | 1 Comment
Jesus told us in Luke 16 that the children of this world are wiser (in their generation) than the children of light, which is why he told us to imitate their shrewdness. Here is an example of the kind of creative practicality the church should copy (not to mention the humor)
Off The Map Live 2009 – Mirrors, Maps and Phyllis Tickle
August 22, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | 6 Comments
Collaborate (rather than compete)
August 21, 2009 by Helen, under The Practicing Church | | 1 Comment
Collaborate from Recycle Your Faith
Beauty Parlor Church Planting in India
August 10, 2009 by Jim, under The Practicing Church | | No Comments »
I love church planters who take risks and responsibilty. That’s what Godfrey and Sarita Fernandes are doing in Bangalore India. They’re buying a hair salon so she can connect with 250 regular customers and they can support themselves (more…)
Performance Art
August 5, 2009 by Jeff, under New world, The Practicing Church, leadership development | | 2 Comments
Mathematics is a performance, a living act, a way of interpreting the world. Imagine music lessons in which students worked through hundreds of hours of sheet music, adjusting the notes on the page, receiving checks and crosses from the teachers, but never playing the music. Students would not continue the subject because they would never experience what music is. Yet this is the situation that continues, seemingly unabated, in mathematics classes. – Jo Boaler, author of What’s Math Got To Do With It?
Being a math teacher and working with a musician in this blog, I resonate with the quote above. All of us have learned to drive by driving, not by reading about it or observing others doing it. I think Jesus told us to know and do or do and know if you please. The good news was performance art for him, not as a person on a stage as much as a way of living. What if we dispensed with the checks and crosses and just let people play the music? What could happen then?
Becoming A Blue Devil
July 28, 2009 by Tyler, under The Practicing Church | | 3 Comments
In the middle of spanish class last week I received a phone call from a (919) area code. Instantly I knew what the call was about, before even listening to the message.
It was Duke University on the line, (more…)
