Bloggin' Beav — My personal outlet for thoughts and perspectives on life, family, leadership, ministry, and of course my favorite sports teams.

Looking Back in Honor of the Shuffle

February 3, 2010

So it is Super Bowl week and I just heard there is going to a remake or spoof of the “Super Bowl Shuffle” in one of this years Super Bowl commercials starring some of the old school ‘85 Bears. Mike Singletary and Jimmy Mac are in the mix. Word is there’s also going to be [...]

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Screwtape for Systems

February 1, 2010

I am halfway through reading Edwin Friedman’s The Myth of the Shiksa, which was published posthumously a couple of years ago as a collection of essays and lectures from Friedman.
The first essay is a classic entitled, “An Interview with the First Family Counselor.” What makes this a unique work is that Friedman identifies the First [...]

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Back Away from the Banking

January 29, 2010

I first read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed my senior year of college. Freire is a South American educator and in many ways a theologian. I was on the verge of graduating in under three years and wasn’t ready to deal with the real world yet so I added a Political Science major to [...]

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Who Says Beer Doesn’t Do Damage?

January 27, 2010

So I’ve had major plumbing emergency issues of late. With the latest edition of California “Storm Watch” I came within 1/4 of an inch of having my living room flooded because water wasn’t draining in our patio right.
Turns out my patio storm drain was flat out busted due to yes – a beer can. My [...]

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On Leading Change and Cleaning House

January 25, 2010

One of the things that annoyed me to no end about President Obama’s inauguration was how much the media coverage made an intentional effort to repeatedly denounce the past eight years in order to glamorize what the future was going to be with a new Sheriff in town. It bugged me even more because most [...]

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Morgan’s Learning to Decode

January 23, 2010

Have to share this brief family anecdote:
We went for a family dinner tonight and doing what we normally do to try to contain our 2 year old boy in public spaces. We had one of his toy cars for him to keep him busy.
Morgan (4 years old) was itching to get her hands on it [...]

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Abusing Authority in Teaching

January 22, 2010

I was reading an article I found recently called “Temptations Facing the Christian Academic” by Elmer Thiessen in a journal I believe entitled Direction and thought there were several thoughts that are relevant to any of us who are in a position where we are influencing, teaching, or educating others consistently.
Here’s a few temptations for [...]

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Streams and Sources

January 19, 2010

Robert Pazmino in Foundational Issues in Christian Education references the following quote attributed to an English woman and Christian educator and education reformer named Charlotte Mason in a book entitled Home School Education (1953).
“As a stream can rise no higher than its source, so it is probably that no educational effort can rise above the [...]

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