Building a survey isn't as easy as you would think. Simple things like layout and formatting (like those are simple?) can have a large impact on the results. So to start, lets discuss the directions. You need ease of use and clarity. If something looks difficult or unclear, it can have drastic effect on response … Continue reading Research Methods: Building a Survey
Ant or Grasshopper
How many of you know the fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Most of us want to live the life of the grasshopper, but have the stockpile of the ant. Let's face it, the life of the ant looks dull. On the other hand, I'm not so sure that the life of the grasshopper … Continue reading Ant or Grasshopper
Power, frames and freedom
We have been using Amazon Prime streaming video to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Nickelodeon series. Something that I have seen about it that is interesting is the question of power. The quest for power. The plot of most stories seems to involve a quest for power. Such as Avatar. But also, the fickleness and … Continue reading Power, frames and freedom
Hot vs. Cold
Today I took a 20-plus mile bicycle ride, wearing short and a T-shirt in about 50 degree weather. By the time I came back I was hot and sweating in some parts, cold to the touch in others. But I felt warm and invigorated. Now I am sitting in a 73 degree house, wrapped in … Continue reading Hot vs. Cold
Pizza Ranch
Monday was the second time Avondale United Methodist Church youth group did a fund-raiser at the Pizza Ranch on North Oak Trafficway. Here are a few pictures from Monday night...
A Concert of Sacred Metaphors:To The Work
The theme of this song (number 9 in my Concert of Sacred Metaphors series) is almost highly appropriate today. Between job and work done for my master's degree class, I am consumed with work of one sort of another. But this song speaks of another type of work, something we shouldn't forget: * To The … Continue reading A Concert of Sacred Metaphors:To The Work
Sing Praise to God — In the third person
I'm doing a reference to another blog again. Ponder Anew put up another wonderful ponderment about the word choices, in this case, which person of pronoun -- first, second or third -- is best for worship and why. So go over there, read and contemplate, and then comment here or there about it. Or you can … Continue reading Sing Praise to God — In the third person
Final Analysis and Interpretation (Chapter 13 Adrian and Downs)
Surprise surprise, the first thing we learn in this chapter is that the analysis is subject to interpretation. "No one has been able to delineate completely and specifically how interpretation ought to be performed." (Location 5000). I guess this means this chapter is a really good teaching point -- on how to learn when something … Continue reading Final Analysis and Interpretation (Chapter 13 Adrian and Downs)
Reflections on choir
1 Timothy 4:12Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV) 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. I remember when I was young(er) taking especial note of the passage above. I taught me to be bold, but also … Continue reading Reflections on choir
Liberty Memorial
Today the Avondale United Methodist Church book club toured the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, MO. We decided to go as a follow up to the reading of Last of the Doughboys, a book about interviews done with the last surviving veterans of World War I. We received … Continue reading Liberty Memorial
At The Rainbow 