Category Archives: who are we?

Communal Beings Need Communal Learning

I’ve spent many hours in the past few days, reading about creating community in distance education.  The basic consensus seems to be that it is crucial, doable, and difficult. In all this, the most amazing thing is how secular educators … Continue reading

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The Neighborhoods Just Intersected

Every Christian likely belongs to several ecclesial neighborhoods.  I belong to at least two: Sanctify and the Biola Registrars Office. This weekend, they overlapped in a fabulous way.  At Sunday breakfast, Sanctify decided to donate funds to a Registrar Office … Continue reading

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Knowing as Knowing How

Some knowledge is learned through practice, applying mind and body to mental and physical skills, until they are nearly hardwired. In the year plus that TNBS has been studying Isaiah, we have slowly developed a communal study method that fits … Continue reading

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Christianity is a Relational Encounter

There are things we learn person-to-person, face-to-face, in the length and depth of sensory encounter, that we cannot otherwise learn. My guys have taught me such things: grace in difficulty, real family, persistence against the odds, and humility in transformation. … Continue reading

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How Do You Hear the Heart of Your Community?

Getting a handle on what’s going on in a community requires knowledge of heart tendencies, variability among persons, and how elements change together. Continual conversation, intentionality about relational webs and listening to the Spirit and one another about influences are … Continue reading

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