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Christian Education : retrospects and prospects
No full textRobert Pazmino embodies the life of Christian service to the Church through his scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. His research and writing have helped to form and shape the scope of the field of Christian education. These essays are also a reminder of his significant impact on Latino/a theological education and its leaders. His landmark text, Foundational Issues of Christian Education was very influential in my early research and writing. I am deeply grateful for Bob\u27s friendship and lasting legacy! I highly recommend this book as a lens to see both his scholarship and the heart of a faithful servant of Christ.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1647/thumbnail.jp
Motivations, Backgrounds, and Practices of Business as Mission Practitioners: Insights from an International Survey
No full text“Business as mission” (BAM) was introduced to the Christian missions community during the 2004 Lausanne conference in Pattaya, Thailand. Since then, interest in BAM has grown exponentially, and with it, demand for support services, training, and financing. For all the attention, however, scholarly research in this area has not kept pace, and there remain many unknowns about the personal and contextual factors that contribute to the impact and sustainability of a BAM enterprise. Seeking to address that gap, this paper builds on insights from the social entrepreneurship literature that enable us to construct a typology that distinguishes between four basic types of BAM practitioner. While all four seek to advance the cause of Christ using business, and thus fit the basic definition of BAM, each brings a different combination of motivations, backgrounds and practices. The relevance of those differences are then explored using survey data collected from 119 self-defined BAM practitioners around the world. We also identify several essential business practices that are correlated with strong economic and social impact. Implications for further research are discussed
Embracing Holy Encounters with All Students
No full textAre conversations surrounding diversity in education creating anxiety, uncertainty, and stress? This blog will provide a biblical perspective on diversity that may be helpful as you navigate conversations surrounding race and the ever-increasing diversity of schools and classrooms. I acknowledge that conversations surrounding race can be difficult, but they are necessary
Don\u27t Put Your Faith in the Wrong Person
No full textIn the late 1980s, George Michael sang the classic words, “I gotta have faith, faith, faith.” But there’s something deeper in the lyric than perhaps the former Wham! singer intended.
After a decade of teaching atheists and three times as long listening to people who have lost their grasp on Christianity, one thing is clear: people don’t so much lose faith as relocate it to another object
Rebel\u27s Manifesto: Choosing Truth, Real Justice, and Love amid the Noise of Today\u27s World
No full textRebel\u27s Manifesto offers clear guidance to help people navigate the many moral issues that plague this generation. Students today are oriented toward action on ethical issues, and Sean will not only help them think biblically about various ethical issues, but he will also offer practical steps to make a positive difference in this world. In this book, Sean covers navigating bullying and social media; handling loneliness, pornography, and sex; approaching various conversations around climate change, race, and other controversial issues; and articulating and defending biblical views at school, online, and with friends.
Life does not need to devolve into an online shouting match. Sean proposes a better way: to live a life calmly and confidently grounded in biblical truth.https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-books/1621/thumbnail.jp
Attachment to God and Quest as Moderators of the Relationship between Religious Doubt and Mental Health
No full textThe present study examined attachment to God and quest as potential moderators of the relationship between religious doubt and mental health. A sample of Christian participants (N = 235) completed a survey which included measures of attachment to God, quest, religious doubt, and mental health. As hypothesized, attachment to God and quest significantly moderated an individual’s experience of religious doubt. Low avoidant attachment to God (i.e., a more secure attachment) was associated with a more negative relationship between cognitive religious doubt and positive mental health than high avoidant attachment. In contrast, low avoidant attachment to God also ameliorated the positive relationship between affective religious doubt and mental health problems. Low anxious attachment was associated with a stronger negative relationship between both measures of religious doubt (i.e., cognitive and affective) and positive mental health. In addition, high soft quest weakened all four of the relationships between measures of religious doubt and mental health. High hard quest ameliorated the positive relationship between both measures of religious doubt and mental health problems. These results indicate that an individual’s attachment to God and the way an individual is oriented toward religion each play a role in the mental health outcomes associated with religious doubt
Addendum Assignment: Exploring Cultural Identity
Full text linkEthnicity.
Culture.
Socioeconomic status
Faith-tradition and spiritualit
Collaboration and Reconciliation in English Language Teaching? Personal Reflections on Critical Incidents
Full text linkCollaboration is largely assumed in English language teaching, while reconciliation is often a goal in this discipline. This article briefly introduces frameworks to help us think about collaboration and to understand reconciliation. Next it discusses three critical incidents in EFL teaching and ESL teacher education from personal experience in China, Indonesia, and the United States. Using the literature and frameworks outlined, the article reflects on cultural and other challenges, notes helps and hindrances to collaboration, and possible ways such issues were or might have been reconciled in the three incidents
J.I. Packer and Our Search for the Stationmaster
No full textIn chapter 10 of the modern theological classic Knowing God, J. I. Packer invites us to stand at the end of the York station platform to watch trains with him. When we first watch them come and go, it’s hard to discern a set pattern in their movements. “[We] will only be able to form a very rough and general idea of the overall plan,” says Packer.
Nevertheless, the plan is there. There is a “magnificent electrical signal box that lies athwart platforms 7 and 8 . . . with little glow-worm lights moving or stationary on different tracks to show the signalmen at a glance exactly where every engine and train is.” In Packer’s analogy, God has that sweeping York-signal-box view of the universe.
We do not. We’re down on the platform where life comes at us in unpredictable, often head-spinning succession. And yet people assess the meaning of life in various ways. Packer’s analogy helps us consider three