Author Archives: Dean G. Blevins

About Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Dean G. Blevins currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship at Nazarene Theological Seminary as well as Director of Nurturing Care with Children through Worship and Prayer. An ordained elder, Dean has ministered in diverse settings and served as the USA Regional Education Coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene. A prolific author, Dr. Blevins co-wrote Discovering Discipleship and authored The Disciples: A BIble Study. Dr. Blevins also served 25 years as editor of the online academic journal Didache: Faithful Teaching.

Happy New Year “nones”

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Dean G. Blevins

I will be teaching a course of young and emerging adults this semester. One of the interesting and disturbing phenomenons of this socio/economic/cultural/developmental cohort revolves around a rising disinterest in traditional Christian faith. Many of this group list themselves with … Continue reading →

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Vocational Discipleship

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

http://www.licc.org.uk/engaging-with-work/ For the past couple of years I have been working on a theme of vocational discipleship. Frost and Hirsch argued that ministry often occurs in “third spaces” between home and work. The more I struggled with this view (coffee … Continue reading →

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Brain Power

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Developing Child and University of Washington’s I-LABS, the film explores the parallels between a child’s brain development and the development of the global brain of Internet, offering insights into the best ways to shape both. Made through a new crowd-sourcing … Continue reading →

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What Next?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Farah closed with a discussion on readings and resources to continue research Organizations The Society for Neuroscience http://www.sfn.org (some meetings include up to 35,000 participants) also includes outreach resources for educators including brain awareness week or brain week (with the … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience Applications in Society

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Farah provided a closing overview of the new ways neuroscience is interacting with society including examples of current and near-term applications of neuroscience in our lives through manipulating brain function and measuring brain function. And closed with a discussion of … Continue reading →

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Other sources

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

I was away from the computer for a really helpful presentation that I may try to report later but I did want to note some other really helpful resources from other members in the group. See the Lisa Sansom’s Blog … Continue reading →

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Personality

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Joseph Kable provided an overview of different approaches to studying personality in Neuroscience. I will only touch on one since the others were a little unclear to me. One approach was using fMRI/BOLD studies of the brain correlated to … Continue reading →

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