pedagogy
Imagine how Christian teaching could transform our lives
Mark Jordan’s gentle, urgent invitation
I wish Francis Su had been my third-grade math teacher
Su’s book is about math and human flourishing. It’s also about how to be a teacher.
The Witness of Preaching after three decades
To teach preaching, I need the witness of Tom Long—and others, too.
The life of faith requires muscle memory
We need to learn to adjust our posture so our theology rings true.
How I teach theology to undergrads
Being religious is not about following rules. It's more like dancing.
Structural sin and resistant knowledge
“White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective,” wrote a tumblr user in February of 2014. This claim illustrates how education sins in its ignorance.
Latin American liberation theologians taught that sin consists not only of personal misdeeds—it is also embedded in social structures that promote harm and inequity.
Why Read Moby-Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
The title of Nathaniel Philbrick’s slim new meditation foregrounds the questions at the heart of every assignment made by every English teacher: Why read this book? Or that book? For that matter, why do we assign reading in the first place?
reviewed by Harold K. Bush