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Answering the Call: Ministerial Education

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Answering the Call · 5M ago

Authentic Orthodoxy, My Philosophy of Teaching & Learning

One of the challenges of seeking a teaching position in a college or university is coming up with an appropriate response to the standard request for an essay explaining one’s “Philosophy of Teaching and Learning”. Naming the philosophy is not difficult. Putting it into a language that is both aca

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Answering the Call · 5M ago

Christian Education, Denominational Governance and Social Justice

Recently I was appointed as the Lay Representative to Annual Conference for my local church here in North Carolina. Like many positions of responsibility that work with larger governing bodies, this position is one that most people do not want. Though the position comes with a great deal of local po

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Capital in the church

Duke Universities online magazine, Faith and Leadership, recently published an article entitled, “Laura Nichol: Rethinking capital — it’s more than money.” The article looks at various forms of capital, including types of cultural capital and economic capital, and how they impact nonprofits. Th

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Knowing Where Your Money Goes

In the past few weeks since the earthquake in Japan, I have seen a multitude of financial requests from such notable agencies as the Red Cross, Doctors Without Boarders, CARE and a multitude of others. Like many others, I seriously considered giving money to them. However, in the end I choose to s

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Teachable Moments AKA “that ‘ll preach”

Part of being an educator, theologian or minister is understanding that the best way to teach a subject is to allow the subject to teach itself. Human beings tend to learn better when the learning is our idea and the answers come because of a question we have raised. Teaching a child about a theolo

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Speaking Truth

Part of being a leader is being willing to take risks and speak the truth. Being truthful, to oneself and to others, is probably the most difficult action a person in the ministry can take. Recently, Len Ripley, a friend of mine and fellow Duke Alumni from the UMC Course of Study program offered th

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

New President of the NC Council of Churches on NPR

Stan Kimmer, a friend and former associate of mine from my days at IBM, Inc., was recently elected to the head of the NC Council of Churches. Here’s the link to an interview he had on the State of Things, a local NPR program. Good interview covering several topics ranging from role of homosexual’

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Documentary on Intimate Partner Violence: “I Believe You” On the Air

The United Methodist Church’s United Methodist Women have teamed up with ABC Affiliates, Odyssey Networks, The New York Board of Rabbis, National Council of Churches USA, Presbyterian Women, and ELCA-Justice for Women to create and broadcast a documentary on intimate partner violence. You can learn

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

Characteristics of a Sucessful Leader

Duke Divinity’s Faith and Leadership publication offereda very interesting article, “Forget the resume”, on the characteristics of a successful theological school president. Based upon a study by Wheeler, Lewis, Miller, Ruger, and Tiede (2010), ” Forget the resume” lists the character traits of

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Answering the Call · 1Y ago

A Call to address AIDS/HIV in United Methodist Seminaries

A Call to United Methodist Seminaries | The General Board of Church and Society. It seems my last post was an appropriate precursor to this one. The UMC Board of Church and Society is calling upon the UMC related seminaries to make an intentional effort to address AIDS/HIV in their schools and cur

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