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Rich Melheim

Stillwater*Aspen*Mumbai*Seoul* (And many places in between)

I help people think

Interests: Practical parenting, humor, neurology, educational systems designs, music, the arts, preschool, cartooning, animation, film, and searching for the meaning of meaning in a post-Gutenberg/neo-Google world.

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Mother's Last Day

On the night my mother died, I lay in bed and wept—not so much in grief, but in thanks for all the marvelous gifts she had given to enrich and sustain my life. Mom planted many beautiful seeds in me—... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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The Voldemort Effect

Here's a piece you can use on Sunday if you want to get people talking about the Boston Bombing, and help parents see the necessity of "Every night in every home" sharing of highs and lows. Download TheVoldemortEffect2Related articles Sleep... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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The Future of Cross+Gen Sunday School

I experienced the future of Cross+Gen Sunday school last night at Lutheran Church of the Master in Lakewood, CO. 1. Tables covered with butcher paper and a box of crayons. 2. Cross+Gen groups starting FAITH5 by going around the table... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Beads of pearl strings Webs of silk Moonlight drops of Spider's milk Hidden ‘neath the Shallow sea God's still hand In mystery Under every shell and stone On the surface, deep in bone Every tidal gallery Art awaits In mystery... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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For as the Rain and Snow... Rundman Channels the Beatles

I wrote a little song a while back from the "For as the rain and snow come down from heaven..." text for our Bible Song children/family curriculum (a themeset on the prophets that He Qi is currently painting) and handed... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Sleep and Learning

Interesting piece on sleep here that both backs up and slightly contradicts one core piece I teach on nightly faith encounters. They suggest you ONLY go to sleep when you are really tired. The consensus for children, however, is that... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Getting That Book Written!

If you have a book in you that you've just never been able to get down on paper, I have a plan for you that will get it out - and build a buzz - a year from today. Read... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Your Best-Sellers in 2014, 2015 & 2016

Unless you are a public figure, the octamom or a Navy Seal, its harder to get an agent than it is to get a book publisher. Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Feb 22, 2013

Most Awesome Clint

Don't Mess With the Clint Tyrant. Good title. Kinda has a ring to it, don'tcha think? Hmmm... better than a ring. I feel an epic poemetic bit a funk coming on: Tyrant, tirade, τύραννος Cruel controlling is his glower Hits,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Born Into Someone's Arms

In "Loving to Know" Esther Meek writes, "Rather than knowing in order to love, we love in order to know." There's another beautiful line that struck me: "We are born into someone's arms." I recall a psychology or sociology prof... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2013 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Rather Than Using A "Canned" Children's Sermon

Play "Stump the Pastor" for the next six weeks. Tell kids "Next week, bring something from your house. Anything strange or unusual. Put it in a box or a bag. I will pull one random box out from among the... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2011 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Before The Sun Sets (a little tune for Sunday morning)

Enjoy the richness Christ lavishes upon you Savor the simple things And give yourself Extravagently away In at least one marvelous Unexpected way Before the sun sets Before the moon rises Fill your world with surprises Before you close your... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2011 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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The Neuroscience of Time

Loved the time piece on MINDSCIENCE by Annalee Newitz. Read it, then do some thinking/writing on how would you would suggest teachers leverage this knowledge to be more effective in the one-hour classroom with: With little children? (3-5) With elementary?... Continue reading

Posted Nov 18, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Tony C & He Qi - DMV002

Download TonyCampolo (Meaning) Part II Here's Part II of the interview I did with friend and mentor Dr. Tony Campolo on the meaning of meaning from a sociologist's point of view. Click the blue letters to hear and download it.... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Oct 23, 2010

Exobrains, Books and Wisdom

The book may not be a book to our children's children. The cover article in Newsweek this week portends the shift in how we will "read" soon and very soon. An interesting little tidbit that will change a lot is... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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MELHEIMIAN MAXIM #249

I'm not a television star... but I'd like to play one on tv. Continue reading

Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Understanding Symbols?

We think of burning a book as an act of the ignorant WEIRD guy and brush it aside as stupidity. Others think of it as an act of desecration on behalf of a whole religion and would strap a bomb... Continue reading

Posted Oct 3, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Truth, Relativism and Anne Hall

Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Is everything totally relative? Remember the scene where Pilate asks Jesus "what is truth?" Asking Truth to define truth is actually a pretty good idea. Old Pilate gets bad press. There's that... Continue reading

Posted Oct 1, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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If and Maybe...

If we could pull the pews and face eachother around round tables... If we could serve a feast for the neighborhood instead of a styrofoam wafer and a Mogan David... and only a sip at that... If we could make... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Every Little Bit

Has anyone done any interesting reading on type-faces, and the meanings they express? A letter on a page is a signifier. But the shape and thickness and slant and formality or informality of that letter is also a signifier. According... Continue reading

Posted Sep 29, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Post-TV Preaching?

The sermon is often a one-way street. That may have worked in the television era... when the "program" was presented and you sat as a spectator. 2005 was a watershed year in the history of human technology. It was the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Ideas at the Start of Semiotics and the Meaning of Meaning

As I read the first chapter of Chandler's Semiotics text to begin my Dmin, the neurology of learning and the concept of "frame of reference" sprang immediately to mind. What you bring to the table when you first encounter new... Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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Bodies, Cells and Dis-Ease

If the family is the fabric of society, some say our fabric is wearing thin. If families are the cells in the body of a culture, some say that our body is under attack; or at least, in a state... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2010 at Dr. Rich's Melheimian Maxims

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