Stories from the Front

You Took My Jesus! or The Trouble With Certainty

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

Imagine this scenario: “YOU TOOK MY JESUS!” said the first-semester student who is feeling displaced, disoriented, disappointed and enraged while being overwhelmed, even defeated, by the unexpected convergence of seminary courses’ too dense readings along with the absence of. Read more →

Class and Race Matters

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
McCormick Theological Seminary

Last time we talked about the body in the classroom. Our body, my body, the bodies of my students, are all shaped by institutional bodies that carry values, marks, love, deceptions, commitments and history. Just as our bodies carry constructions of race, gender, Read more →

Grading Pains?

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

It is that time of the year. After weeks and months of class sessions and office hours, the spring semester is now over. There is, of course, something left for us teachers to do Read more →

My Personal Policies List (& Janine’s List, too)

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

Regardless of how many times pedagogical guru Parker Palmer is asked, he refuses to comply. Dr. Palmer, in his writings, speeches, and workshops, resists reducing the mystical adventure of critically reflective teaching to “tips, tricks, and techniques.” While I Read more →

Body Matters in Education

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
McCormick Theological Seminary

At the heart of education, the most important “instrument” of our lives, the house we inhabit, is the very core of our selves: our bodies. Fully! It is in and through our bodies that we learn and are able to unlearn. The immense. Read more →