Stories from the Front

Teaching What is “Real”

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

“You are now entering the real world.” This is undoubtedly one of the most popular remarks that college/university graduates hear around the time of their commencement ceremony. The comment implies, of course, that life Read more →

Ramblings About The Proximity of Violence

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

The proximity of violence is the terror. Violence is not new – it is, for much of our society and in many, many ways, a preferred way of life. The illusion is that violence can be controlled, patrolled, contained, Read more →

Pedagogies of Fear How should we think about the shooting of Prof. William Klug?

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
McCormick Theological Seminary

In memory of William Klug and Ioan Petru Culianu Pedagogies are concerned with the study and practice of teaching and learning. Pedagogies are ways of organizing society as it has to do with ways of thinking and valuing life, shaping emotions, defining sense, Read more →

Saying “Yes” to a Slow Summer and “No” to Sundry (Smartphone) Summons

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

[O]ne thing above all—to step to one side, to leave … spare moments, to grow silent, to become slow—the leisurely art of the goldsmith applied to language: an art which must carry out slow Read more →