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
What might make school homework Christian? The content of the worksheet? Or maybe the relationship patterns that are fostered by the task? This piece grew out of a breakfast conversation with some local teachers and has resonated with other teacher groups. In fact once I…
David I. SmithJanuary 1, 2015
This article was first published in The Christian Teachers Journal, vol. 21:2, May 2013. It offers an overview of some key themes that informed the design of the resources at www.whatiflearning.com I focus in particular on the idea of Christian practices and what they have…
David I. SmithMay 1, 2013
This essay was published in 2012 in the book Practically Human: College Professors Speak from the Heart of Humanities Education edited by Gary Schmidt & Matthew Walhout (Grand Rapids: Calvin College Press, 2012, 133-145). It asks why we invest time and resources in learning other…
David I. SmithSeptember 20, 2012
This paper was published in Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages (now Journal of Christianity and World Languages) 12, 2011, p.29-44. It takes its starting point from some abiguities in my 2000 book with Barbara Carvill, The Gift of the Stranger, and goes on to…
David I. SmithApril 1, 2011
What do beauty, prayer, imagination, and teaching have to do with one another? This piece explores the connections through reflection on a prayer and some related ideas from the great Didactic by John Amos Comenius (as well as some metaphors for nursing). It also continues…
David I. SmithMay 26, 2009
This review is of a book that focuses on the student's end of the process of Christian learning, asking what it means to be a Christian learner. The review was published in Journal of Education and Christian Belief, vol. 13, 1 (2009): pp. 96-97. The…
David I. SmithMarch 1, 2009
This review of Craig Dykstra's book Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices (2nd edition) was published in The Reformed Journal in 2008. This is an important book on faith, formation, and education that I still refer to often. For anyone who…
David I. SmithJune 1, 2008
I came across a short piece that I wrote as a journal editorial a little over a decade ago. I think several of its themes are still pertinent. It was published as the editorial of the Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, since renamed the…
David I. SmithApril 10, 2008
This review of Chris Anderson's book about how faith shapes his teaching in a secular university was published in Journal of Education and Christian Belief, vol. 11, 1 (2007): pp. 85-86. The book is available from Baylor University Press and other bookstores. Chris Anderson, Teaching…
David I. SmithMarch 1, 2007
