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Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. Some years ago, I was sitting in my campus office minding my own business when the phone rang. It turned out to be Matt, a student who had been in…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Learning to Pray

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. The way we pray says quite a lot about us. Our prayers and the way we form them project a story about what ought to be. When we draw upon…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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A Tale of Two Transformations

This post appeared first on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. I was recently provoked to fresh reflection on two very familiar passages as I prepared to share them with education students. One is about schooling; the other is about being…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, it is reproduced by permission. This is the third in a series of reflections on student vocation. I began in February by dipping into Protestant theologies of vocation and noting that the Christian’s basic calling…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission. In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our students’ vocations and how that might affect how we teach. I pointed to a common…

David I. SmithApril 1, 2022

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Students and Vocation in the Present Tense

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar's Review blog, and is reproduced by permission.Some time ago, I noticed a poster on a departmental noticeboard at my university bearing the heading “Vocational Retreat.” It invited students to join a retreat at which alumni would share…

David I. SmithMarch 31, 2022

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Consider the Snail: Teaching Online and Learning to Breathe

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholars Review blog, September 8, 2020, and is reproduced by permission. Snails, it turns out, have things to teach us, even for folk with advanced degrees. Things that could be relevant to an online course. Things that carry…

David I. SmithFebruary 16, 2021

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Reflections on How to Begin a Semester

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholars Review blog, January 8, 2021, and is reproduced by permission. I ended last year with some reflections on how to end a semester. Here I offer some reflections on how to begin one. They were provoked by…

David I. SmithFebruary 11, 2021

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Sticking with the Task: Some Reflections on Hope and Co…us.

This year, the 350th anniversary of the death of one of the most interesting educators of all time, my aim is to post a piece in each month of 2020 about John Amos Comenius. I am also writing this during the early days of state-wide…

David I. SmithMarch 30, 2020

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What Year Is It?

Many years ago I read a piece of advice that I have not regretted taking to heart. The advice was basically that once your studies are done and your career starts, you should choose a deep, important thinker (the advice was, I believe, in a…

David I. SmithJanuary 22, 2020

Articles & Essays

Hearing, Speaking, Learning.

Learning to Pray

A Tale of Two Transformations

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense

Consider the Snail: Teaching Online and Learning to Breathe

Reflections on How to Begin a Semester

Sticking with the Task: Some Reflections on Hope and Co…us.

What Year Is It?

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