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“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”-John Steinbeck Teaching is hard work. Art is hard work. They...

This week, I am teaching a class at Butler Senior High School, an entire week with one class, talking about the United Methodist Church. Today, was the first day of United Methodist Church week at BHS’s Literature of Community Religions Class. Each week for the last 10 weeks...

In the previous blog we looked at the present ‘crisis’ of theology we are facing in our churches. Not in that we don’t have proper theology (for the most part) but rather that we have failed to communicate properly to students. There are 3 kinds of thinking about...