Teaching, Religion, Politics

A Moving Syllabus

Mindy McGarrah Sharp
Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ethics
Phillips Theological Seminary

What do you know to be true now that you used to think was false? What do you know to be false now that you used to think was true? What is something you’ve always thought true Read more →

Managing Heated Debate on Politics and Religion

Teresa Delgado
Director, Peace and Justice Studies
Associate Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department
Iona College

Earlier this semester, a number of faculty on our campus organized a “teach-in” to address growing concerns over the Trump administration’s recent executive orders and presidential leadership. Entitled, “Freedom from Fear: American Democracy in.. Read more →

Teaching About the Politics of Religion and Social Change

Dean J. Johnson
Director Peace & Conflict Studies
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
West Chester University

Every time I walk into a classroom or workshop for the first time, I hear the voices of elders in the long, Black-led struggle for justice pressing the questions: “How are you going to Read more →

Forgetfulness as a Political Act

Stephen G. Ray, Jr.
Neal A. and Ila F. Fisher Professor of Theology
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

In my last blog, I reflected on my regret about the way that my classroom had become politicized in an election season in ways that I came to regret. Unexpectedly, I find myself once Read more →