http://www.billdahl.net "How might words open hearts? May you find them refreshing and share them among your people." Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:42:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Click on the above to enlarge: You can see our travels together today from the photo album by clicking here: Click on slideshow and full screen. Yes, some shots are better than others…look for the ones that float your boat All of the photos are from today (with the exception of about ... http://www.billdahl.net/posts/roaming-with-reggie-today-photos/ Sometimes, language blows my brain up - blows my hair back. I am going to get to an extensive review of this book here in a few days:  Smart World – Breakthrough Creativity and the new Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle – Harvard Business School Press Boston, MA USA ... http://www.billdahl.net/headline/homo-imagians/ When Christianity is assumed to be an “answer” that makes the world intelligible, it reflects an  accommodated church committed to assuring Christians that the way things are is the way things have to be. Such answers cannot help but turn Christianity into an explanation. For me, learning to be a ... http://www.billdahl.net/book-reviews/a-faith-beyond-explanation/ "To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a ... http://www.billdahl.net/quotesiderations/on-becoming-more-fully-human/ I had loaned my copy of this sociological treasure to someone several years ago and never got it back. I picked this one up at a used book sale at the local library. It's a wonderful reference book for life. An enduring work of amazing longitudinal research and analysis --- ... http://www.billdahl.net/book-reviews/the-seasons-of-a-mans-life-by-daniel-levinson/ I have been completing some study lately on how we think, where ideas come from, the sociology of knowledge, creativity, innovation and imagination. I stumbled upon the reference to this little treasure in the end notes of another book. I also have a policy of reading one book more than ... http://www.billdahl.net/featured/the-origins-of-knowledge-and-imagination/ If The Church Were Christian – Rediscovering the Values of Jesus by Philip Gulley,  Published by HarperOne, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers NY, NY Copyright (c) 2010 by Philip Gulley. From the author of If Grace Is True, Philip Gulley does a masterful job in crafting a heartfelt call to re-imagine, reform ... http://www.billdahl.net/featured/if-the-church-were-christian-by-philip-gulley/ Hauerwas says, "Theology is not best understood as a system --- narrative might have something to do with theology." (emphasis is mine-p. 63). This book is a narrative you should not overlook. This book is like a curry...you need to savor what is written here with the taste buds of your ... http://www.billdahl.net/featured/hannahs-child-a-theologians-memoir/ Wow! This work is true to it's subtitle: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas.  Anyone interested in imagination, creativity and the emergence of leaps in innovation ---- this book is for you. I studied this book. It is one that makes you think beyond how you thought as you ... http://www.billdahl.net/book-reviews/smart-world-by-richard-ogle-book-review/ Samir Selmanovic, Ph.D., is a founder and Christian co-leader of Faith House Manhattan,  an inter-faith “community of communities” that brings together forward-looking Christians, Muslims, Jews, atheists and others who seek to thrive interdependently. [caption id="attachment_1969" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Samir Selmanovic"][/caption] Samir is also the director of a Christian community in New ... http://www.billdahl.net/articles/does-the-biblical-worldview-emerge-a-look-ahead-with-samir-salmanovich/