Walking!
Think your creativity has abandoned you? Can’t come up with a catchy idea for a sales slogan (or a sermon application, preachers)? Stuck on how to begin an essay? No way out of the mundane thoughts crowding your brain?
Well there is a solution: take a walk! (But not too long, lest your attempt to jumpstart creativity turn into an excuse for procrastination.)
Researchers at Stanford University recently published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Company!
Apparently you don’t need human company any more. Or even a pet. Now we have a drone to go jogging with!
In last month’s CHI (Computer Human Interaction) conference in Seoul, researchers shared the latest in human interaction with digital technologies. Computer science, cognitive psychology, design, social science, anthropology, artificial intelligence, etc., were some of the fields represented. This year’s conference theme was “Crossings,” described by the CHI
Calm!
A group of scientists from the University of California, Davis, and from University of California, San Francisco, suspect that they’ve found a way to quiet stress signals in the brain.
Eat sugar!
(Of course, I knew that all along, and agree heartily, particularly when aforementioned sugar is found in the species of health food called cheesecake! In fact, I’m pretty stressed out right now. Hmmm ….)
These folks conclude that because of this property of sugar, one can
Michael Quicke: How I Preach
Michael Quicke: And this is How I Preach …
[Michael and I connected at the Evangelical Homiletics Society several years ago. This Britisher (with both Cambridge and Oxford pedigrees) is a perspicacious writer on matters related to preaching. Before his fourteen years at Northern Seminary, he was principal of Spurgeon’s College, London—the largest Baptist seminary in Europe—for about a decade, tenth in line to C. H. Spurgeon himself! Michael’s pastoral heart, international
Another New Commentary!
This is a rehash of an old post, to announce my new commentary that’s just come out: Ephesians: A Theological Commentary for Preachers.
I’m frequently asked by my students about commentaries I employ in my preaching prep.
The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly. The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.
Water!
You can be drunk when you haven’t drunk!
In recent article in Physiology & Behavior, titled “Mild Hypohydration Increases the Frequency of Driver Errors during a Prolonged, Monotonous Driving Task,” researchers from Loughborough University in Leicestershire, showed that even mildly dehydrated drivers make more than twice as many mistakes as those adequately hydrated. And the number of mistakes was equivalent those who were driving after consuming alcohol.
In other
Longevity!
In 1985, Richard Bass of the US, at the age of 55, climbed Mt. Everest, making him the first to conquer all the world’s highest mountains on all seven continents and the oldest to get atop Everest. But in 2013, Yuichiro Miura of Japan reached the summit of Mt. Everest at the age of 80. And Takao Arayama of Tanzania climbed all seven mountains at 74 (completing the series in 2010).
What exactly does it mean to get “old”? Chronological age? Forgetfulness?
The characteristics
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.