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Articles & Essays Language and Culture Learning

The Gift of the Stranger Revisited

What is hospitality and is it a good thing? My first full-length book, published in 2000, was The Gift of the Stranger: Faith, Hospitality, and Language Learning, co-authored with Barbara Carvill. This piece from 2006 is one of the couple of occasions when I have…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2006

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

How not to bless the nations.

In Genesis 12 Abram is called to be a blessing to the nations. In Genesis 20 he is just the opposite, and the foreigner who was supposed to be pagan, lustful, and violent turns out to be the one who hears God's voice and has…

David I. SmithDecember 16, 2005

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Reflection on Scripture

Psalm 113: The Movie

This short reflection was published in Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought in 2005. More recently it served as the basis for designing a learning activity called Cosmic Zoom as part of the FAST project on faith and science teaching. A short film that aired…

David I. SmithJanuary 16, 2005

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

Irony, Sovereignty and Cheeses

Why does the story of David and Goliath suddenly seem preoccupied with cheese? That's what I started wondering some years ago, and it led to this meditation on 1 Samuel 17. It was published in the Reformed Journal in June 2003, p.24. 1 Samuel 17:18…

David I. SmithJune 1, 2003

Articles & Essays Reflection on Scripture

Commentary: Luke 10:36

This brief commentary was published in the now discontinued British magazine Third Way in November 2000 (vol. 23, no.9, p.22). It still seems relevant as I post it here almost 20 years later and living in a different country. “Which of these three do you…

David I. SmithNovember 1, 2000

Faith and Teaching Language and Culture Learning Scholarship Spiritual Development

Cross-Curricular Spiritual and Moral Development: Reflections on the Charis Project

In the 1990s I was involved in the Charis Project, a multi-year curriculum development project hosted at the Stapleford Centre in Nottingham, England. The project focused on developing resources in response to the then-new National Curriculum's call for moral and spiritual development to be addressed…

David I. SmithMay 1, 1999

Language and Culture Learning Resources Scholarship

Communication and Integrity: Moral Development and Modern Languages

This paper was written while I was still teaching German and French in secondary schools in the UK. It emerged out of my dawning realization that even though my training had taught me to focus mostly on how language acquisition was happening in my classroom,…

David I. SmithMarch 1, 1997

Reflection on Scripture Scholarship

What hope after Babel? Diversity and Community in Gen 11:1-9, Exod 1:1-14, Zeph 3:1-13 and Acts 2:1-13.

Does the Bible teach that we all spoke one language until a sinful rebellion created diversity? Or that redemption means one language in heaven? This article was first published in Horizons in Biblical Theology 18:2, 1996, 169 191 It grew out of an attempt to…

David I. SmithJanuary 1, 1996

David I. Smith

The Gift of the Stranger Revisited

How not to bless the nations.

Psalm 113: The Movie

Irony, Sovereignty and Cheeses

Commentary: Luke 10:36

Cross-Curricular Spiritual and Moral Development: Reflections on the Charis Project

Communication and Integrity: Moral Development and Modern Languages

What hope after Babel? Diversity and Community in Gen 11:1-9, Exod 1:1-14, Zeph 3:1-13 and Acts 2:1-13.

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