If someone rubs you the wrong way, is he sinful? Let’s say you know someone stubborn. And insensitive. And demanding. And abrasive. This person provokes you — and everyone else. No one wants to work projects together or share seats on a bus. Is this person being sinful? We come down pretty hard on people […]
Our mess
Do you read fiction? Here’s why it matters. Walk into a room and lecture 25 people for an hour and what will they remember? The one story you told about the pilot caught in a death spiral. We keep a quote in our office that captures the power of story: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures […]
How would Jesus resolve this one?
We encourage students to do what Jesus would do. Good idea, and not a bad exercise for adults either. For example . . . A friend told us about a lose-lose situation at his church. An older church that’s no longer thriving, they own tons of property from their glory days. So much property the […]
Mapping the geography of a student’s mind
I took in a lecture today that easily cleared the fence of my normal thinking. The last five minutes dealt with social geography. Most of you probably discuss social geography at the dinner table, but I’d never heard of it before. It goes something like this: We all inhabit three places — physical reality (I […]
A cool "failure" story
In 1973, Michael was a 16-year-old Messianic Jew. He’d been following Jesus for one year when the Hebrew Club at his Brooklyn high school hosted a seminar on why Jesus was not the Messiah. Michael determined to defend Jesus at the seminar. The Hebrew Club brought in a hotshot young Rabbinical scholar who spoke for […]
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