About

Who in the World Are We? is an ongoing journey, wondering out-loud, while exegeting through Ephesians and working to help form one small corner of the New Humanity in Christ.

This About page is nearly always a work in progress.

This blog focuses on ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the church, as it intersects with anthropology and sociology. In other words, the church as it involves real persons and real societies.

You will find:

  • Book reviews
  • Definitions
  • Ponderings
  • Wonderings
  • Reflections
  • Sundry shorts: clippings, quotations, questions, tangent matrices, and mutterings

In the interest of full disclosure:

  • Prior to February 2010, Who in the World Are We? was an ecclesiology (doctrine of the church) blog.  After about a year and a half dabbling in holistic health, it has returned to the passion of the author: ecclesiology.
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Who is Laura Springer?

I am at least a third generation free-church Protestant of the Baptist variety. I cut my theological teeth under the preaching and teaching of ultra-dispensational (a la C. I. Scofield), verse-by-verse exegete, William D. Lawrence (not the one at DTS). Interest in ecclesiology was planted by a church split during my early adult years, nurtured by my subsequent participation in a church plant, and practiced in ministry creation at an established church.

Educational Background

  • Currently: Student, Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Studies, 2013 if all goes well), Talbot School of Theology
  • Master of Theology (Systematic Theology, 2008), Talbot School of Theology
  • Master of Divinity (Christian Education, 2005),  Talbot School of Theology

Awards

  • Zondervan Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, 2008
  • The Robert N. Oliver Award in Systematic Theology, 2008
  • Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 2005

Publications

Unpublished Works

Springer, L.K. An Articulation and Evaluation of an Emerging Church Ecclesiology. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 2008. [available on lulu]

Citations

“Hunting for Taxonomies,” cited by Ed Stetzer in “The Emergent/Emerging Church: A Missiological Perspective”in Evangelicals Engaging Emergent: A Discussion of the Emergent Church Movement, Edited by William D. Henard and Adam W. Greenway, (p. 51, n. 56).

Contact Information

email: lkspringer AT gmail DOT com

Twitter: Tangentrider

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This blog is a rebirth of whointheworldarewe.blogspot.com

and spent a short time at witwaw.wordpress.com

About the Author

My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating four aspects of this design—spiritual, intellectual, affective, and physical health—into a description of whole life health.