Category Archives: Discipleship

Scottie May to speak April 9th Miriam Hall Lecture on Children’s Ministry

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dean G. Blevins

Mary Scottie May, Ph.D. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN FORMATION AND MINISTRY Looking forward to this spring when NTS will host the Miriam Hall lecture April 9th with nationally known Children’s ministry educator Scottie May. Morning presentation begins at 10:30 am … Continue reading →

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faithfulhomes

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Dean G. Blevins

As a part of the Family Ministry class at NTS, I will be utilizing one of the key projects we have developed directly with Nazarene Sunday School Discipleship Ministry International, known as faithfulhomes. This website, http://faithfulhomes.org, began development as part … 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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Reading and Dyslexia

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Important to remember that reading is a cultural phenomena. Not all cultures developed reading in the same way which raises issues concerning the next cognitive disorder. Chatterjee presented a case where an subject learned to read a second language in … Continue reading →

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Emotion and the Brain

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

A long but beneficial day studying emotion and the brain. Dr. Joseph Kable  provided three lectures that started with the basics of neural correlates to emotion (regions involved),  the nature of motivation including specific issues involved in addiction, the place … Continue reading →

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Mediated Religion to use Social Media in class

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Dean G. Blevins

CED605 Mediated Religion will be using social media in class. Students will be experimenting with Twitter and Facebook as part of the course, “tweeting” interactions with the course content in real time during class sessions. How well will this strategy … Continue reading →

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MACE now MACFD

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Dean G. Blevins

Nazarene Theological Seminary’s Master of Arts in Christian Education (MACE) is now the Master of Arts in Christian Formation and Discipleship (MACFD). The name change also reflects an expansion of the degree to incorporate greater coursework in Spiritual Formation and … Continue reading →

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