A funny thing happened in New Orleans last weekend. After four and a half years in seminary, including a year of exile from The Big Easy after Hurricane Katrina, I managed to graduate. Sure, I had to take my ONE. LAST. CLASS. at that seminary in Fort Worth, but I finally finished. ...
The final day in New Mexico was reserved for Santa Fe itself. I spent a few hours downtown visiting the shops and touring a few of the historic sites. Above are photos of two old churches: the Loretto Chapel (left) and San Miguel Mission (right).
I took a few photos inside San Miguel...
Anne Jackson asked her readers about burnout yesterday. She wanted us to offer what we’d like to hear at a conference breakout session on burnout. Church work often leads to burnout, and Anne talks all about it in her book Mad Church Disease, coming out next February.
I responded with two related thoughts:
1. The gospel we...
This is the last blog I’m writing from New Orleans. I have a few scheduled for the coming days because I’ll be trying to move things to Mobile then to Fort Worth, and I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to post. Today is one day shy of fulfilling my second full year...
After Katrina, NOBTS experimented with online classes via something called a Threaded Discussion System (TDS). Basically, our classes were self-guided, with online discussion that was led by our professors. The majority of our information was sent to in PowerPoint files loaded on Blackboard, and that’s where our discussion took place as well. Some liked it,...
