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Advent: The Messy Preparation, Ross Douma

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"The stark reality is Advent season, while one of the most anticipated of the entire year, tends to be one of the most stressful times for people."

Posting about keeping our focus on the meaning of Christmas from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/advent-the-messy-preparation/

Grace Of Failure, David J. Mulder

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"Rather than 'averaging' grades on discrete bits of knowledge and facts, teachers could track growth in understanding the big ideas over time."

Posting about new ways to assess student learning from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-grace-of-failure/

Getting It Wrong, Neal Deroo

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"We need to remember our sinfulness so we don't get too proud of our own accomplishments or too sure of our ability to save ourselves."

Posting about differing perceptions of history from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/getting-it-wrong/

Lead Me Not Into Temptation, Neal Deroo

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"What is it about sexuality that makes us so afraid of leading people into this kind of temptation?"

Posting about a healthy appreciation of sexuality from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/lead-me-not-into-temptation/

Modest Or Prude? Redeeming Our Wardrobes, Valorie L. Zonnefeld

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"We live in a sex-saturated society which bombards us with images and innuendos at every turn."

Posting about appropriate clothing choices in a fallen world from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/modest-or-prude-redeeming-our-wardrobes/

Exteriority, Howard Schaap

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Critical Thinking And High-Level Discourse In A 1:1 Environment, Ryan G. Zonnefeld, Valorie L. Zonnefeld

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Learn about our experiences co-teaching a K–8 methods course using 1:1 tablets in a high-tech lab. This innovative course included a move away from a textbook to a dynamic research-based curriculum supported by NCTM resources and CCSSM as well as integral utilization of apps, web 2.0 tools, and professional learning networks.

Science Associated With Producing Gmos, Darren Stoub

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"Are our understandings of GMOs based in reality? Are GMOs bad? Are they good? Should we make them? These are challenging questions. We, as a society, must discuss the issues."

Posting about the science associated with GMOs from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-science-associated-with-producing-gmos/

Playing God, Jeff Ploegstra

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"Technically speaking, animals and plants that we have selectively bred are genetically modified organisms (GMOs)."

Posting about the benefits and dangers of genetic modification from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/playing-god/

God, Human Nature, And Psychology, Mark Christians

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"God created humans to think, act, and feel and to be in relationship with other humans."

Posting about exploring the many realms of human expression­­­­­­­­ from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/god-human-nature-and-psychology/

Rapture Of The Geeks, Derek Schuurman

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"If we are more than machines, what is it that defines our humanity? Is it our intelligence, creativity, or emotion?"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the distinction between humans and artificial creatures from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-rapture-of-the-geeks/

Christian Views Of The Student, Steve Holtrop

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"Because we are very influenced by the philosophies of our age, we need to critically examine these -isms through a biblical lens."

Posting about a Christian perspective on understanding students from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/christian-views-of-the-student/

Law And Human Nature, Donald Roth

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"While the law may assume rationality, it's a fair question whether people are really all that rational."

Posting about the way that human nature is viewed by the law from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/the-law-and-human-nature/

What Is A Human Being?, Neal Deroo

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"Our religious relationship to God is nothing other than the entirety of the life we live, and our life is nothing other than a spiritual or religious act, from start to finish."

Posting about the "God-human-creation" relationship from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/what-is-a-human-being/

Getting Spiritual: A Plan For Reaching Conservative Christians With Postmodern Religion, Neal Deroo

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Today I hope to talk about how we can try to have good, constructive, mutually-enriching conversations with conservative Christians. I think two things are required for this that are, perhaps, currently lacking from postmodern theology, but the seeds of which I think are already present there. The first thing that is needed is a common vocabulary that is meaningful and connects well with the traditions of both postmodern and conservative Christians. Second, we need to find places or means by which the two groups can come into contact with each other to engage in conversations: what will draw us together, …

A Handbook For High Reliability Schools: The Next Step In School Reform (Book Review), Thomas M. Van Soelen

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Reviewed Title: A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, by Robert J. Marzano, Phil Warrick, and Julia A. Simms. Cheltenham, Vic, Australia: Hawker Brownlow Education, 2015. ISBN: 9781760012779

James 3:13-4:10 And The Language Of Envy In Proverbs 3:21-35, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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Although a few interpreters have noted in passing the numerous verbal links between James 3:13–4:10 and LXX Prov 3:21–35, James’ passage is regularly read as a polemic against jealousy that is most at home within Hellenistic moral literature. This paper argues that the literary and thematic coherence of James 3:13–4:10 derives not primarily from the Hellenistic topos on envy (so Luke Timothy Johnson) but from metaleptic interplay with Prov 3:21–35. That is, the explicit appeal to “the scripture” in James 4:5 and the citation of Prov 3:34 in James 4:6 indicate that the tropes usually interpreted against the backdrop of …

Cbfa 2015 Business And Human Flourishing - A Holistic Visual Model, John Visser

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The reputation and, to a lesser degree the practice of business, perhaps more than those of any other institution, suffer from the kind of reductionism that is the stepchild of dualistic and secular thinking. Some business-bashing is deserved, since some businesses operate in a very opportunistic ways, but much of it can be traced back to a misunderstanding of what business is and does. Unfortunately, once we have been fooled into thinking that life can be compartmentalized, and that we can wall off religious beliefs from the rest of life, and that our economic lives belong on the secular side …

Psalm For The Night Shift, Leah A. Zuidema

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"Night shift work isn't glamorous. It is often thankless work, the kind that goes unnoticed when it is done well, and is commented on only when it is not completed as expected. The same is true for the night shift in the house of the Lord: we don't often think about it."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­"behind the scenes" kingdom work from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/a-psalm-for-the-night-shift/

Eco-Pietism Vs. Eco-Piety, Ethan Brue

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"Good intentions undergird each practice and authentic faith formation has emerged from even our most legalistic practices."

Posting about true Christian piety from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/eco-pietism-vs-eco-piety/

"Digital Natives" Or "The Dumbest Generation?", David J. Mulder

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A common part of the conversation about Millenials is to describe them as exceptionally technologically-savvy; some have called them "digital natives." But research does not bear this out; people of older generations can be equally tech-savvy, and while many Millenials love their phones and social media, etc., the reality is that all of us are acculturated into a particular era of technology, and members of each generation can exhibit a range of comfort and skill working with different technologies.

Mediating The Sacred: Popular Culture As Liturgical Icon In A Secular Age, Jason Lief

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This presentation explores how popular culture and the new forms of technology that mediate it function as a "cultural liturgy" within the immanent frame of secularity. Poetic and symbolic expressions that mediate the sacred within the lived experience of young people will be shared. Icons within the secular experience of young people in the West can be seen positively by Christians. This paper draws from research conducted for a forthcoming book on the relationship between Heavy Metal music and Theology.

Wasting My Vote: Why I Am An "Independent", Jason Lief

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"What gives shape to my political views are issues of justice: caring for the poor, the widow, and the orphan."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­issues that influence our voting from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/wasting-my-vote-why-i-am-an-independent/

Bible Stories No One Talks About, Mark Verbruggen

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"These are real people, messed up and sinful people, and yet they are the ones used by God to advance his Kingdom of grace and truth in Jesus Christ."

Posting about dealing with ­­­­­­­­the unpleasant narratives in the Bible from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/bible-stories-no-one-talks-about/

How Should We Read The Bible?, Benjamin J. Lappenga

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"Embrace the fact that passages have a range of valid interpretations."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­ways to read the Bible from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/how-should-we-read-the-bible/?

How Can We Become Biblically Literate?, Jay Shim

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"The Bible is to be read as a single book of progressive revelation moving from the Old to the New Testatment."

Posting about acquiring Biblical knowledge from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/how-can-we-become-biblically-literate/

Cultivating A Biblical Imagination, Jason Lief

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"There are parts of the Bible that are puzzling, difficult, and downright mysterious."

Posting about being open to God's Word in new ways from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/cultivating-a-biblical-imagination/

Why Christians Don't Read The Bible, Aaron Baart

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"How we imagine God will also determine another key aspect of the life of the Christian--how and how much we read our Bible."

Posting about ways to reinvigorate Bible reading from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/why-christians-dont-read-the-bible/

Meaning, Being And Expression: A Phenomenological Justification For Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Neal Deroo

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The purpose of this talk is two-fold: first, to lay out a phenomenological justification for why scientific or theoretical investigation must be carried out both within particular disciplines and across various disciplines; and second, to show that such a justification--alluded to with varying levels of explicitness in various works by various figures--itself opens new paths of exploration for phenomenology.

Heart Of Stone And Heart Of Flesh, John Visser

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"Scripture makes it clear that stewardship is much more than a perspective on wealth or money."

Posting about Scriptural insights on economics from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/heart-of-stone-and-heart-of-flesh/