Your blog posts for the next two weeks

For the blog posts for the next two weeks (one post due each week), here are suggestions. For those at the 400 level, remember you are expected to reply to another student's blog post each week. And for those of you at the 300 level, you're encouraged to reply to other students' posts. Here are the questions for the next two weeks; answer only one question in each blog post:

1. Steve mentioned the need to "create a safe space in which people can explore their emotions." What do you think it looks like to do this in a sermon?

2. Look at the practical ideas on pages 204-205 of the coursebook. Pick one of the ideas to comment on, and spend some time writing about what it would look like in your setting to respond to that suggestion.

3. What might it look like for us to think more about communication as dialog in preaching?


An additional note from Steve: There was some discussion during the audio-conference of the origins and history of the song "Forever Young." Some web surfing reveals that it was first released as a single in 1984. Since then, according to Wikipedia, it has become something of a pop culture standard. It has appeared in television series, movies, and advertisements and been performed by numerous musical groups, including remixes and demos, on:
* Alphaville: The Singles Collection, 1988 (remixed)
* History, 1993 (covered live)
* Dreamscapes, 1999 (demo, demo remix, performed live and re-recorded acoustically)
* Little America, 1999 (performed live)
* Stark Naked and Absolutely Live, 2000 (performed live)
* Forever Pop, 2001 (remixed)

So it's a song that I would suggest has appeared in the "collective memory" of a number of generations, from the 1980's, through the 1990s', into the early 2000's.