Napkin Scribbles

Join Professor Sweet for a special Nativity Napkin Scribble celebrating the work of Jan de Beer and his painting famously known as The Nativity. While listening Dr. Sweet encourages you to look at the painting to take in its incredible details.  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Jan_de_Beer_%28Attr.%29_-_The_Nativity.jpg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join professor Sweet as he explores two significant problems we face in our faith.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he pours out wisdom while challenging us to live our life as a fountain.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet for another great story as he scratches out his thoughts on the digital age and what that means for the church and our participation in it.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he commemorates the Gary Thomas 'Sacred Pathways' book and the 9 sacred pathways it explores.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he shares his thoughts on poetry and one of his favorite poets Les Murray. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he scratches out his thoughts on the importance of semiotics, metaphors, and storytelling in theology. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet for a couple personal stories that helped shape his prospective on being the first.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he shares wisdom on living life with a light that shines both transparent and translucent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he scratches out his thoughts on experiencing God in stereo conceptually and symbolically. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he talks about the simple and yet complex (simplexity) nature of our faith.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Professor Sweet as he continues to challenge our views on giving and receiving and how it relates to our or finances and other resources.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

This week on Napkin Scribbles Professor Leonard Sweet challenged us to explore whether we are better givers or receivers and how our answer to this question reflects our true relationship with God.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Welcome back for season 3 of Napkin Scribbles with author and professor Leonard Sweet. Portland Seminary of George Fox University is once again proud to bring you the scratching and scribblings of Dr. Sweet this semester. First up is a personal story and from Dr. Sweet warning us against the wows of an outhouse mindset in modern culture.  Please feel free to leave a message for Professor Sweet on with many question on this episode. At the conclusion of the season Professor Sweet will reply to a select few in a special bonus episode.  https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he shares his excitement about the upcoming season of Napkin Scribbles!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he scribbles his thoughts on the power of absence, loss and the celebration of them both. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he scribbles his thoughts on Sigmund Freud and six major transitions that we need to prepare for in a changing world.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he scribbles out a preview of one of his latest books that encourages the church to prepare for the what's next.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he encourages us with a personal road to Damascus story that helped him convert into the man he is today.      --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message

Join Dr. Sweet as he scribbles out his thoughts on a long debated Leo Tolstoy quote as well as the difference between having a story and an anecdote. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/napkinscribbles/message