Columbia Receives Nurturing Children Planning Grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc.
November 30, 2022
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Columbia Receives Nurturing Children Planning Grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc.
November 30, 2022 – Columbia Theological Seminary has received a planning grant of $50,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Nurturing Children through Worship and Prayer Initiative. The aim of this initiative is to help children come to know and...
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Addressing Clergy Mental Health
There are approximately 243,900 clergy employed in the USA.(1)
They are the spiritual and administrative leaders of faith-based organizations: congregations, churches, non-profits, denominations, etc.
They oversee funerals and weddings, visit ill and homebound congregants, provide spiritual direction and pastoral counseling...
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Choose Principles Over Feelings
Differentiation of self, one of the eight concepts in Bowen Systems Theory, is all about functioning.
One manifestation of how one functions in a self-differentiated manner is how well one can separate feeling from thinking (feelings being the experience...
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Bridges Out of Poverty: ReKindle Project 2.0
Faith Presbyterian Church of Blue Ridge, Georgia, received a first-year reKindle grant in 2021 from the Center for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Their grant project, titled “Nourishing Hope in Our Beloved Community,” was a joint effort with the...
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The Brain and Teaching and Learning: Pt 5
Today’s brain and learning concept: the brain perceives and creates parts and wholes.
This is the final entry in this “The Brain and Teaching and Learning” series.
The brain has two separate but simultaneous tendencies for organizing information.
One...
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Long Lives, Well Lived
In the 1970s, four couples in Spokane, WA, were busy raising families and building careers as they developed their lives and faithfulness at Emmanuel Lutheran Church.
It was a fun and busy time for their thirteen kids (me being one...
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The Brain and Teaching and Learning: Pt 4
Some of the most revolutionary ideas in teaching and learning have taken place over the past couple of decades.
Those ideas come out of a deeper understanding of the organic brain, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology. Studies in those fields have...
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Change Is In The Air
As I write this, it is one of those brilliant mid-fall days where the whole creation seems sharp and clear.
The sky is deep blue, with no visible clouds; the air is warm, but there is a pronounced undercurrent...
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The Brain and Teaching and Learning: Pt 3
Some of the most revolutionary ideas in teaching and learning have taken place over the past couple of decades.
Those ideas come out of a deeper understanding of the organic brain, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology.
Studies in those fields have...
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