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Conversion and conversions will be themes of this blog for the next couple of weeks. This series on Chrysalis is about Alan Jamieson’s book Chrysalis: The Hidden Transformation in the Journey of Faith. Today’s comes from Matt Staton.

This study, which comes out every year, maps what this incoming first year students have known their entire life. OK, what do you think about this?

Three educational stereotypes: Women don’t do well in college mathematics and science courses, African American students don’t do well in college and Mexican American students don’t do well in school. Three stereotypes that good teachers not only recognize but are eradicating because they refuse to accept the stereotypes. Chp 4 of Ken Bain, What the…

What about this story about Lolo Jones, one of our Olympians?

Conversion and conversions will be themes of this blog for the next couple of weeks. We will suspend our “heaven” series, continue our books — Wright and Bain — but will also be having posts about our new book, Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy. More posts, however, will be about Alan…

A book many of us are reading for this blog, and we will have a number of reviews from our readers, is by Alan Jamieson and is called Chrysalis: The Hidden Transformation in the Journey of Faith. I was reminded yesterday by a reader that the earliest post on this didn’t give much about what…

What did you think of the conversation Rick Warren had with Barack Obama and John McCain? (Question #1) Who do you think “won”? (#2) Why? (#3) Here at Jesus Creed we discuss politics with civility, and that means tell us who you think “won” but do so without saying what the other person lacked. So,…

A couple weeks back I mentioned that I wrote a book with Hauna Ondrey called Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy, and I have asked a few folks to “respond” to specific chapters. (These are not “reviews” but responses.) Today’s response is to chp 4, “Leaving Wheaton, Finding Rome: The Improbable Conversion…

Conversion and conversions will be themes of this blog for the next couple of weeks. We will suspend our “heaven” series, continue our books — Wright and Bain — but will also be having posts about our new book, Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy. More posts, however, will be about Alan…

Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,…
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