Stories from the Front

Looking back, but really looking forward

Molly Bassett
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Georgia State University

A week into the spring semester, the fall term seems like it was forever ago! In my last post, I talked about the informal evaluations my students took, and since writing that post, I have thought about some of the. Read more →

HARD: Teaching Against Racism

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

Teaching for racial equality, and against oppression, has meant coming to grips with what my adult students (domestic and international) do not know, i.e. the basic concepts of race and the mechanisms of racism in the United States. Teaching Read more →

Improvisation As Formation Goal

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

We teach with aspirational dreams for our students. The right-now challenge of student formation is that we have never seen our world just-so. We are intellectual, faith pioneers in the malaise and luxury of the 21st century. This digita Read more →

Where we begin

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
McCormick Theological Seminar

I am delighted to be writing this blog with two other fantastic teachers I admire greatly: Lynne Westfield and Tat-siong Benny Liew. The Wabash Center has been a fantastic place that has empowered so many teachers, and has expanded resources and possibilities for Read more →

Informal Evaluations

Molly Bassett
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Georgia State University

In my last post, I talked about the final class of my new course “Between Animals and Gods” and promised to say more about the informal student evaluations I give at the end of courses. Like students everywhere, mine take Read more →

Tears about Mis-Education

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

Sometimes learning is accompanied by tears, theirs and mine. The concept of mis-education is so disquieting to some students that tears are shed in the classroom. Never has there been bold sobs or muffled cries of languished sorrow Read more →