Stories from the Front

The Importance of Being an Absent-Minded Professor

Tat-siong Benny Liew
Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
College of the Holy Cross

If you can remember a time when you kept track of your appointments by writing them on a huge calendar pad that took up half of your desktop (and you know that “desktop” once Read more →

Learning in Tragedy-Time

Derek Nelson
Associate Professor of Religion
Wabash College

On February 17 the Wabash community got word that police were on the campus looking for a suspect in a double murder. As it turned out, the suspect was an employee. He had taken a college van, and later ended his life Read more →

A Strategy to Re-Humanize

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

The intent of racism is to dehumanize. Consequently, a prevalent strategy of racism is to convince caring people that non-white people are lacking - lacking in values, lacking in character, lacking in abilities, lacking in that which makes for Read more →

Syllabus creation

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
McCormick Theological Seminar

To teach is to create worlds. Worlds known and unknown, worlds that we will visit and be visited by, worlds that will haunt us. Worlds that we hope students will engage in many ways. Worlds that hopefully will show the ways in which Read more →

The Need to Speak Up . . . from the Start!

Tat-siong Benny Liew
Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
College of the Holy Cross

After about six months and fifteen horrible haircuts in the San Francisco Bay area I finally found somebody who could give me a decent haircut, and I became a loyal customer for the Read more →