David I. Smith, Author at David I. Smith

Researching Digital Life Together

How is digital technology changing Christian schools? And how are Christian teachers thinking about the changes and how to address them? These questions have been at the heart of the research in which I have been involved for the past several years, and will be…

David I. SmithJune 6, 2019

Articles & Essays Language and Culture Learning

Some Doubts about “Incarnation”

This piece was written at a time when there was a marked trend in popular evangelical writing about cultural difference to talk about the desirability of being "incarnational". Since then there has been some retreat from that language (including in a later edition of the…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2019

Faith and Teaching Talks, Lectures, Interviews

Faith & Leadership Interview: What being Christian has to do with how we teach

Formation happens not only from what students are taught but also from how they are taught, says a scholar of faith and learning. What are the implications for teachers who are Christian? Today, teaching is basically viewed as a matter of technique, says David I.…

David I. SmithMarch 5, 2019

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching

Review of Tracing the Lines: Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship

This review of a recent book by Robert Sweetman, who exerted significant influence on my own thinking as my teacher during my M.Phil studies at the Institute for Christian Studies, was published in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, June 2018. The book is available…

David I. SmithJune 1, 2018

Faith and Teaching Scholarship Voices from the Past

Teaching Bonhoeffer: Pedagogy and Peripheral Practices

Some of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s major writings emerged from the experience of planning and leading an innovative seminary at Finkenwalde, where there was a strong focus on intentional communal practices. This article uses the process of designing an undergraduate course focused on Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together…

David I. SmithApril 18, 2017

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching Voices from the Past

The History of Theological Education—An Extended Review

This review of a useful recent volume on the history of theological education was published in Christian Scholars Review XLVII(1), 2017, 51-57. The book should be of interest not just to theological educators, but to others interested in how the Christian church has approached education…

David I. SmithMarch 31, 2017

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching

Christian mind ≠ Christian pedagogy

This piece was published as the editorial in International Journal of Christianity & Education 2017, Vol. 21(1), p. 2–5. A few years ago, I surveyed with colleagues four decades of output from 26 Christian and interfaith peer-reviewed journals in North America across a range of…

David I. SmithFebruary 13, 2017

Faith and Teaching Reflection on Scripture Talks, Lectures, Interviews

Identifying With Those Who Suffer: Psalm 6

Dr. David Smith encourages the Wheaton community to identify with those who suffer by praying with those people rather than praying for those people through Psalm 6.

David I. SmithSeptember 30, 2016

Faith and Teaching Language and Culture Learning Talks, Lectures, Interviews

Wheaton Gration Lecture 2016

The John A. Gration Lecture Series honors Dr. Gration, professor emeritus and founding chair of the Intercultural Studies graduate programs at Wheaton College Graduate School.

David I. SmithSeptember 29, 2016

Faith and Teaching Talks, Lectures, Interviews Voices from the Past

“A Cold Heart Cannot Catch Fire”: Imagination, Faith, and Teaching

2015 Conference: Faith and Teaching: Virtue, Practice, Imagination. Closing session: "'A Cold Heart Cannot Catch Fire': Imagination, Faith, and Teaching"

David I. SmithNovember 3, 2015