Category Archives: Christian Education

One of the continuing paradoxes of Christian education in congregations (and in most seminaries, admittedly) is that the ways we’ve chosen to go about teaching for faith is actually inimical to how people need to learn it. Here are some … Continue reading →

I’m currently working on a book, with a colleague, on planning the educational program of the local church. I’d like some feedback from those of you who have done educational planning in the local church (past or present). I’ll be … Continue reading →

Professor of Latin and Greek, A. E. Housman is, arguably, more popularly know for his poetry. His most noted poetic work is A Shropshire Lad which includes the popular �To An Athelete Dying Young.� More ironically, given his self-avowed atheism, … Continue reading →

This is pretty cool. OpenBible.info has done some “geocoding” on Google maps to placenames in the Bible. Which means you can use their Bible book list (menu) to locate the geographical place names in the Bible. In itself, pretty nifty. … Continue reading →

Is this the next book for “dummies”? Or merely a book by a couple of dummies?

Four separate recent incidents have got me thinking about the issues of faith, learning, and educating in faith. In the first incident, a seminary student shared with me her experience at a “contemporary worship service” at a local church. She … Continue reading →

Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) makes a splash in the latest issue of the Religious Herald, the state Baptist paper of Virginia (Feb 8, 2007, Vol. 180 No 3). The issue has a front page above-the-fold feature story about … Continue reading →