Using Hybrid Effectively in Christian Higher Education

Hybrid is just one of a number of terms used for the convergence of face-to-face and online learning, At the University of Central Florida (UCF) they are called mixed mode courses, In the corporate world the most common language used for hybrid is blended learning, Blended learning, says Bob Mosher, is about using multiple learning modalities, which include, but are not limited to, the Web.7 The blended learning term is also being used more frequently within academic circles,8 Because of the inconsistency in how blended learning is employed, though, and because our goal is not to describe learning in general but to focus on individual courses, this article will use the term hybrid and will apply it more narrowly to mean a course in which face-to-face and online learning are integrated in such a way that the seat time of the course is reduced

Luther’s Mysticism, Pietism, and Contemplative Spirituality

To ask, “Why church?” certainly stirs multilayered theological, missional, ecclesial, and pastoral reflection. The question also has spiritual ramifications. To explore some of them, we will trace a thread of the Lutheran spiritual tradition from Martin Luther’s own “faith mysticism” through particular aspects of German pietism. That overview will provide a foundation for engaging the contemporary contemplative movement, in order to discern how its concepts and practices might provide insight for the practice of spirituality. Our conviction is that deepening the interior journey through a living, active faith leads not to withdrawal but to an awareness—even a vulnerability—that welcomes a healthy struggle with the realities of our world

Preaching to Every Pew: Cross-cultural Strategies

Author: Nieman, James R. Title: Preaching to every pew. Publisher: Minneapolis: Fortress Pr, 2001

Evangelicals and Roman Catholic Spirituality

After almost twenty-five years of teaching at an evangelical seminary in the Pacific Northwest I am seeing an emerging interest in and hunger for Catholic spirituality and mysticism among many of our students, both at the master’s and doctor of ministry levels. It is exciting to see spirituality as a conduit for Roman Catholic – Evangelical ecumenism and dialogue

Dynamical invariants and parameter space structures for rational maps

For parametrized families of dynamical systems, two major goals are classifying the systems up to topological conjugacy, and understanding the structure of the bifurcation locus. The family Fλ = z^n + λ/z^d gives a 1-parameter, n+d degree family of rational maps of the Riemann sphere, which arise as singular perturbations of the polynomial z^n. This work presents several results related to these goals for the family Fλ, particularly regarding a structure of "necklaces" in the λ parameter plane. This structure consists of infinitely many simple closed curves which surround the origin, and which contain postcritically finite parameters of two types: superstable parameters and escape time Sierpinski parameters. First, we derive a dynamical invariant to distinguish the conjugacy classes among the superstable parameters on a given necklace, and to count the number of conjugacy classes. Second, we prove the existence of a deeper fractal system of "subnecklaces," wherein the escape time Sierpinski parameters on the previously known necklaces are themselves surrounded by infinitely many necklaces

Collaboration and Conflict in Europe around the Early Tranquebar Mission

Some 300 years ago, on July 9,1706, a new epoch in Protestantism began when Bartholomew Ziegenbaig and Heinrich Plütschau landed as missionaries at Tranquebar on the eastern coast of southern India. This mission, though not as well known as later Moravian Brethren missionary efforts or William Carey’s momentous journey, must be regarded as the first on-going Protestant foreign mission work.^ The cooperative nature of this endeavor throughout much of the eighteenth century has frequently been noted^ and stands in stark contrast to the more insular character of missions in the nineteenth century. It is the story of how an Anglican voluntary society in England supported a Royal Danish Mission in the sending of Lutheran missionaries from the Pietist center of Halle to Tranquebar

Superspace Type II 4D Supergravity from Type II Superstring

We derive the equations of motion of type II 4D supergravity in superspace. This is achieved by coupling the Type II Berkovits' hybrid superstring to an N=2 curved background and requiring that the sigma-model has N=(2,2) superconformal invariance at one loop. We show that there are no anomalies in the fermionic OPE's and the complete set of compensator's equations is derived from the energy-momentum tensor. The equations of motion describe a hypertensorial and vectorial multiplet coupled to a U(1)\times U(1) N=2 Poincar\`e Supergravity.Comment: 13 pages, revtex4. Based on work presented at 4th International Winter Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics (WC 2004), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9-13 Aug 200