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Language and Culture Learning Scholarship

Hospitality, Language Pedagogy, and Communities of Practice

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

Articles & Essays Voices from the Past

On Graced Learning: Can Schools be Beautiful?

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

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching

Review of The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness: A Guide for Students

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

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching

Review of Craig Dykstra: Growing in the Life of Faith

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

Articles & Essays Faith and Teaching Featured Language and Culture Learning

Christian Faith and Language Pedagogy

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

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching

Review of Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University

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

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

David I. Smith

Hospitality, Language Pedagogy, and Communities of Practice

On Graced Learning: Can Schools be Beautiful?

Review of The Outrageous Idea of Academic Faithfulness: A Guide for Students

Review of Craig Dykstra: Growing in the Life of Faith

Christian Faith and Language Pedagogy

Review of Teaching as Believing: Faith in the University

The Gift of the Stranger Revisited

How not to bless the nations.

Psalm 113: The Movie

Irony, Sovereignty and Cheeses

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