Working Memory

How do you remember things? Can you retain what you have learned? How effective is your working memory? Learning is a complex task that depends on a wide range of thinking skills working together: working memory. Working memory is a person’s ability to temporarily hold and manipulate information for thinking tasks that are performed on… Read More

Doodling the Scriptures

A workshop was offered at our church based on the book Praying in Color by Sybil MacBeth in which she introduces an active, visual, and meditative form of intercessory prayer. Basically, it was a way to use doodling to quiet your mind and focus your attention on the conversation you were engaged in with God. While many of… Read More

Fire Together—Wire Together

— If you read last week’s blog and listened to Barbara Arrowsmith-Young’s story, I hope you felt hopeful and energized by the possibilities wired into our God-designed brains. God tells us: Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Romans… Read More