Understanding the relationship between our brains and bodies influences our ethics, worship, and our understanding of religious experience.
NTSx is partnering with Blueprint 1543 to offer this online life long learning course that addresses the basics of psychology in service to theology, how our brain works, and how the influence of worship and spiritual formation. 
5 hours of viewing, short quizzes, and online reading/discussion totaling 10 hours of CEU credit. The five-week course begins November 7 with ample time to complete course work each week. Student guided discussion occurs online Thursday through Saturday.
Register at NTSx and enroll in Brains and Embodiment.
For more information contact Dr. Dean G. Blevins
dgblevins@nts.edu
This Fall 2018 I will be providing a special learning opportunity for “both” local youth ministers/workers who live 
around the KC area “and” for global youth pastors or other concerned ministers intrigued by with how neuroscience might influence our understanding and ministry with youth. 
Recently I was invited to take part in an experiment hosted by Dr. 
technology and learning. This experiment included my watching several videos using VR Goggles. The videos really merely reflected different experiments with VR from simulations to live experience, often in remarkable settings.
Greg Forster, with the Center for Transformational Churches at Trinity International University, opened the second day of the 
deeper levels of exploring faith, work, and economics in theological education. The Oikonomia Network also explicitly partners with the 
economic wisdom and human flourishing. Such efforts include Tom Nelson’s new book 
The Faculty Retreat for the Oikonomia network opened this evening at the Sheraton Gateway, LAX. The retreat serves as a 
one day precursor to the Karam Forum that follows. Greg Forster greeted visiting faculty and noted that the focus of the retreat revolves around the question “What is the Economic Responsibility of the Church?” Forster observed that often questions of faith, work, and economics begin and end in the 
practical life of the congregation. So, this year’s retreat hopes to raise questions about the church’s life and engagement with our current economic realities.
To orient the faculty to the theme, Forster introduced Dr. L. Gregory Jones from Duke Divinity School and Duke University. Dr. Jones has served both as the Dean of Duke Divinity and 
Provost at Baylor University before returning to Duke to teach and serve as 
Discipleship Commons 
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