Beauty at the Bus Stop

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Chicken, Beef, and Steelhead Trout

Chicken legs, roasted simply, cooked in gelatin-enriched broth

Beef pot roast, marinated in dry rub of raw cacao and black pepper, cooked in tomatoes

Breakfast salad of steelhead trout, bacon, jicama, 

and red leaf lettuce with mint flavored vinegar dressing

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And the calling fits like skin

seizing strengths in an ecclesiological
mosaic

freedom to dance
aimed by passion and need
aiding wholeness toward life

fitted call
bringing me
yet gaining us

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Informants

• carpe diem: strengths and self-teaching
• prioritize space for kingdom impact
• holism and margin

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The journey companion is worth everything

hurting heart expressions
well aimed

hurting
but worship relies
answers are his

worship risks
radical love
end unknown

praying heart leaks love
trusting
his life

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Informants

• When I Live, Hurt, and Die
• random word: hug
• random word: well-meaningly

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Dancing on the space between the disciplines

your POV enriches fallow ground
unrecognized potential

keys clarify reality
mysteries wonder

dialectical arrives at truth unseen
enrapturing souls

extended understanding frees
curiosity given tenure

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Informants

• “Assessing Interdisciplinary Learning Outcomes” by A. F. Repko, University of Texas Arlington (pdf)
• “A Grand Unified Theory of Interdisciplinarity” by L. J. Davis, Chronicle of Higher Education, 53.40 (2007) (pdf)
• “Interdisciplinarity: An Introduction” by M. Seipel, Truman State University
• “Negotiating a passage between interdisciplinary boundaries” by K. Wissoker, Chronicle of Higher Education, 46.32 (2000)
• “Collaborative efforts: Promoting interdisciplinary scholars” by Pfirmian, Collins, Lowes, and Michaels, Chronicle of Higher Education, 51.23 (2005)

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Definition: Teach

Instigating intellectual breadth centered on one great thing; inciting broad capacities to uncover truth; sharing integrative content; clarifying true metanarrative; scaffolding learner processes towards wholes.

Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "teach" in synonym discussion under "teach" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• "one great thing" in The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, 10th Anniversary Edition  by Parker Palmer

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Can we separate methods from their grounding in philosophy?

Those setting themselves beneath the canopy see God’s works and devise godless explanations, claiming human ownership. We know the truth: God’s works are God’s works.

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Informants

• Theory and practice as moving from worldview to philosophy to methodology to content and back again
• deduction and induction as God-given, though polluted

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Cultural competency involves...

Gathering as who we are, not as who we are expected to be; being for others as who they are, not as who we assume.

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Informant

• Faculty Development presentation on intercultural competency by Deborah L. Taylor, Ph.D.

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Why are we here and not there?

story told
stirs passion
increasing heart’s capacity

deep nourishment
multiplies soul’s metabolism

steady stance
grows courage
trusting self to him

communal synergy
reflecting God’s perichoresis

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Informants

• What Do I Do? – Some Priority Ministries
  
•  random word: heat
• random word: bibulously

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Hunting his Glory...Everywhere

Integrative Thought plays on the heuristics at the core of human knowing, beginning with idea saturation, allowing the soul to discover Jesus’ glory, organically declared.

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Informant

• “Integrative Thinking, Synthesis, and Creativity” by David J. Sill

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Definition: Impression

autonomic understanding, synthesizing from the known; holistic drawing apart, trusting internal logic; inferential snap judgment, fitting subject and person; deriving flyby, collecting the heart’s reactions

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Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "impression" in synonym discussion under "idea" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Answering informed curiosity

Parsing out the fuzziness of concern and context, touring the notions, seeing lives, uncovering the heart, then stated, justified, and identified, we explore, describe, explain.

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Informant

• Qualitative Research: topic, problem, and purpose

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Life insists upon itself - revisited

See other captures.

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Teaching as formation of persons

environmental scanning
of souls’ narratives
changing over time
dwelling or visiting
by intentional design

depth of skill
functions soul-to-soul
crossing generations
lifetimes
moments
fitting needs

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Informants

• faculty development model: Matthew Weathers
• faculty as whole persons in whole cultures
• 1 Chronicles 12:33

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Unpacking the mutters

chafed mumbles
voiced under whispered breath
this unwarranted heart beats
unwise self-reflection

weak-me
left unclarified
leaking mixed apprehension
in subtle self-conformity

me
lost in me

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Informants

• irritation
• self-doubt
• mutters

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Living this Spirit-crafted transformation

sadness insufficient
turn
driven by passion
self known honesty

God-crafted
obedience respects him
me

perspective
mine
his

hungering for both

continuous subtle realignment
heart’s passion

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Informants

• An Unlikely Transformation
  
• random word: curve
• random word: avidly

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Definition: Notion

playful pondering of mental vagaries that brings forth inklings of ideas, resting on the born side of clarity, still caught in complexities, unhidden by analysis

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Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "notion" in synonym discussion under "idea" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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Explicating our communal fog

dailies
desired as if mine
hint
at life’s linear web

intertwining devotional
complexity dances

happenings interpreted
illumine presuppositions

perspective’s mental mosaic
traditions’ wisdom
enlighten w/holes

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Informant

• Psalm 116:6-7
• Bias
• Narrative phenomenology
• Philosophy
• Objectivity

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Prayer for the Infirm and Lonely

God,
all in existence depends on you.
I ask you to give health to those
who suffer the body's rebellion.
I thank you for wisdom,
gained over centuries and across cultures,
working within your created systems,
to bring health, sufficient
not only for daily tasks,
but also for periodic enjoyment of your bounty.

God,
we, your people, walk together toward you.
I ask you to grow hospitality in these,
who suffer the soul's unwilling disconnection.
I thank you for humanity's relational nature,
yearning for the other,
building neighborhoods wherever we give love,
forming community
shoulder to shoulder
and heart to heart.

God,
you give deep purpose to our ordinary lives.
I ask that you use these
your infirm and lonely ones.
I thank you for the wealth of possibilities,
worked out in every facet of life,
giving back our skills and capacities
as offerings to you
as we serve and guard nature
and walk and work with one another.

Previously posted in August 2009.

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I’m only who i am with you

imaging together
variegated glory in hones reflections
functionless apart
communal strands being peopled
snowballing transformation
his image beginning to end
together
for real
lived
until

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Informants

• Being who we are
• Assessing faculty needs

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Declaring by baby steps

tentative or brave
today
growing souls

so entering
available space
context determines manner

trusting as we can
his heart decides

speak today
so hearers hear

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Informants

• Witnessing 101
• random word: deal
• random word: agilely

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Definition: Thought

Precise, intellectually situated mental products, resulting in systematic inferences flowing from implications that are coherent and rational, as contrasting with products flowing from playful imagination.

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Informants

• definition of "tangent" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.
• definition of "thought" in synonym discussion under "idea" in Merriam-Webster 7.0 for Windows Mobile, (c) 2004-2007.

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We seek to understand

Whether this person, this phenomenon, this people, or this problem, we seek to understand, through their eyes, through our eyes, and maybe through God’s eyes.

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Informants

• Narrative Study
• Case Study

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Growing intentional community.

Here in this hothouse, seeds on the verge of germination, nurture-- mutual, intrinsic, communal, cultural --creates intentional relations of soil, air, life toward creative liberation.

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Informants

• Faculty Developers as persons

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But they’re so sincere

passion cannot prove goodness
it’s only tending

perception cannot decide reality
it’s only input

mere power
is insufficient
without end

skewed soul
radically unable
thirsty

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Informants

• Learnings from a Sorcerer
• random word: labor
• random word: saharan

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