When significant events happen in you life, think about them in terms of kairos. How can you make the most of the opportunity? What can you do, learn, see, or experience with respect to this event?
Think Differently About Time, by Todd W. Hall, PhD
Parker Palmer on How to Let Your Life Speak, by Maria Popova
What it takes to learn to listen to the timid wild animal that is the soul.
“Trying to live someone else’s life, or to live by an abstract norm, will invariably fail — and may even do great damage.” -Parker Palmer
Why has the Imagination been Sidelined in Literature? by Damien G. Walter
Einstein once famously proclaimed that “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Yet we find ourselves at the position today where any non STEM subject has seen a de facto obliteration of its status and funding. That’s not a criticism of STEM subjects or their creative potential, but as Einstein was trying to tell us, those subjects are at their strongest when honed by a powerful imagination.
Jonathan Edwards in a New Light, by Pulitzer Prize Winner Marilynne Robinson
A Pulitzer prize-winning novelist writing of her intellectual debt to Jonathan Edwards in a major intellectual journal it is definitely worth a read:
“I have heard it said a thousand times that people seek out religion in order to escape complexity and uncertainty. I was moved and instructed precisely by the vast theater Edwards’s vision proposes for complexity and uncertainty…”-Marilynne Robinson
Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling, by Paul J. Zak
We found that character-driven stories consistently cause oxytocin synthesis. Viewers will literally bond with the characters and share their emotions, and after the movie ends, they are likely to continue mimicking the feelings and behaviors of those characters.
Madness and the Muse: The Secrets of the Creative Brain, by Tom Bartlett
When Nancy Andreasen began her research into creativity and mental illness, she assumed she’d prove there’s a relationship between creativity and schizophrenia such as in John Nash, the brilliant mathematician whose battle with schizophrenia was the basis for the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001). But is it a fiction?
Associate Editor Tim Basselin Named to Dallas Seminary’s New Media Arts and Worship Faculty
“Tim brings a dynamic love for Jesus Christ, which informs and shapes his love for his family, his pastoral care for his students, and his passion for writing.” -Reg Grant, DTS
Thinking Well About Things (Other Than Politics) by C.C. Pecknold
C.C. Pecknold is assistant professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America. He is most recently the author of Christianity and Politics: A Brief Guide to the History (Cascade 2010). His article is written to Catholics but is certainly…
Two Handed Warriors Named to CT’s ’50 Women You Should Know’
Part One in Series “Women of Faith in Leadership” Posted by Gary David Stratton, Senior Editor Congratulations to Two Handed Warrior contributors Margaret Feinberg and Rachel Held Evans for their inclusion in Christianity Today’s “50 Women You Should Know” (below).…
Study Finds Millennials More ‘Generation ME’ Than ‘Generation WE’, by Joanna Chau
Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled Than Ever Before–and More Miserable by Joanna Chau Millennials, the generation of young Americans born after 1982, may not be the caring, socially conscious environmentalists some have portrayed them to be, according to a study…
The End of Teaching as We Know It, by Alvaro Gonzalez-Alorda
As a follow up to the J.R. Miller’s wildly successful article “Flipped Theology: How Flipping Your Classroom Increases Learning,” we turned to one of the top slideshares on the new teaching revolution in higher education. by Alvaro Gonzalez-Alorda Six Key…
VIDEO – How Schools Kill Creativity, by Sir Ken Robinson
Two TED messages on education by Sir Ken Robinson pinpoint many of the problems (and some of the solutions) facing education today. How Schools Kill Creativity . . Bring on the Revolution