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03/12/2013
Does Life Offer us Second Chances?
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Associate Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Moravian Theological Seminary It was the second week of January, and I was alone with the three kids as my husband was off to sunny California on business. The first night he was away, my youngest son had a little fight with... Read more →
03/05/2013
“You Are Fired:” Keeping Group Work Real in the Classroom
Antonios Finitsis, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Pacific Lutheran University Recent literature on the educational profile of the iGeneration emphasizes their love for collaboration.[1] One could further argue that group projects make great assignments beyond the well-documented learning proclivities of current students. There are many benefits a student can gain... Read more →
02/26/2013
Using Time
Debra J. Mumford, Frank H. Caldwell Associate Professor of Homiletics and Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. “Using Time.” What a curious phrase. At best, it is aspirational. At worst, it is a wee bit oxymoric. Through ticking clocks and rotating calendars we all bear witness... Read more →
02/19/2013
Rookie in the Room
Rob Muthiah, Professor of Practical Theology, Azusa Pacific Graduate School of Theology Who has the power in this faculty meeting, and what does that mean for me? As a new hire in our graduate school of theology, I didn’t formulate these questions explicitly as I went to my first faculty... Read more →
02/12/2013
Be Nice!
Kate Blanchard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Alma College I have always been gifted at getting people’s hackles up. Maybe it comes from being the self-righteous firstborn of two firstborns. Maybe it comes from being socially awkward, always better at pleasing teachers than pleasing peers. Maybe it comes from my... Read more →
02/05/2013
How I Learned to Leave My Lecture Notes Behind ... Sometimes
Eric Barreto, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary It was the middle of the semester, a time when exhaustion so often overtakes pedagogical finesse, a time when the energy of new courses is abating and the promise of a reprieve from grading and lecturing is too distant to relish.... Read more →
01/29/2013
Is, not Ought
Kent Brintnall, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte To paraphrase Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, “I have a confession: I don’t much like my students.” It’s not that I don’t like them as people or that I wish them ill. It’s not that... Read more →
01/21/2013
“We’re Not in Kansas (nor Cambridge) Anymore”
Lisa M. Hess, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, United Theological Seminary Arriving onto the campus of my first fulltime teaching job in higher education was not unlike finding myself in a strange land with a little dog under my arm. “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,”... Read more →