Stories from the Front

What We Do with Appearance and Assumptions: Our Own and Those of Our Students

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

It was by now a pretty well-known social experiment. A man dressed like a homeless person collapses on the street and is ignored by pedestrians; when the same person puts on a business suit. Read more →

Teaching the Not Visible

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

My grandmother used to speak in adages, parables, metaphors, similes and symbols. Now I call her proclivity for language, literature, and meaning-making “wisdom-speak.” Then, I thought she was being corny. She knew her wisdom-speak was meant to teach me Read more →

Going back to the Classroom: Professors or Educators?

Cláudio Carvalhaes
Associate Professor
Union Theological Seminary

As we go back to the classroom (and shake off the dust of summer), we all have mixed feelings and expectations. While some of us will just go back to the normal, others will be anxious and perhaps fearful about a.. Read more →

Bag Check!

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

Those of us who spend our leisure time watching the Tennis Channel are guaranteed to have seen numerous episodes of the marketing promotion called, “Bag Check,” where the top players reveal, one item at... Read more →

Teaching for Work Worth Doing

Nancy Lynne Westfield
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Drew Theological School

The up-tick of media covered violence in the USA, as well as the reports of violence from around the world, causes me to pause. While I believe that experiencing the pain, suffering, and uncertainty of the world is calling Read more →