by David Phillips | Oct 27, 2014 | Education, Featured
It’s election season and one of the big topics that always comes up is the topic of education funding. Here in Georgia, it’s a big deal in the governor’s race. Doing a series of posts on income inequality expectedly brought me to looking into education. But I’ve had...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Communications, Culture, Formation
In the previous two posts in this series, I described the declining educational system and its impact on younger adults. Today I want to provide suggestions to help us communicate better in light of this decline. 1. Communicate in short stories. I was taught in...
by David Phillips | May 26, 2011 | Communications, Culture, Formation, Missional
I was talking recently with a young college student finishing his first year at a community college. He was doing a paper and I asked how the paper was going. He told me he was about half way through, it was due in a couple of days and he had run out of resources. I...
by David Phillips | May 25, 2011 | Video
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been...
by David Phillips | May 25, 2011 | Communications, Culture, Formation, Ministry
With this post I begin a series on the impact education, knowledge and cultural trends should have on communication and spiritual formation in the church. In this post, I talk about the knowledge deficit in American, especially in young adults. In early 2011, at the...