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Lost in translation? Accessing past Christian educational reflection

This essay was published as the editorial for the International Journal of Christianity & Education 28:2, July 2024. Scholarly discussion of the relationship between Christianity and education is, of course, far from being a recent endeavor. The study of how faith is implicated in education…

David I. SmithDecember 5, 2024

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Positions, Perspectives, and Practices

Note: This essay was first published at the Converge blog: https://converge.education/positions-perspectives-practices/. A few years ago, I had a conversation with a student at my university that remains emblematic of one of my worries about Christian education. No doubt aware of my interest in how faith…

David I. SmithDecember 5, 2024

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Civic Hospitality, Pedagogical Engagement, and Faith-Framed Learning

One of the possible functions of Christian beliefs and practices in teaching and learning contexts is to act as framing devices. When concern for student wellbeing is named as pastoral care, when environmental responsibility is connected to stewardship or creation care, or when language learning…

David I. SmithMay 16, 2024

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Hospitality, Teaching, and Pauses for Reflection

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. DAVID: Some years ago, I was teaching an intensive graduate class in curriculum studies to a group that included students from multiple countries. The first significant written assignment came a…

David I. SmithApril 10, 2024

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The Rhythms of Imagined Faith

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. In the preface to her recent book on theological education, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier describes some of the repeating patterns that she experienced during her childhood as a member of a Latin@…

David I. SmithOctober 24, 2023

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The Courage to Begin

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. One morning in July I sat with some fellow faculty at the tail end of a writing retreat, and the conversation turned to the dawning realization that there is less…

David I. SmithAugust 22, 2023

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A Teacher’s Burdens (And Who Shoulders Them)

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. I’ve been thinking about burdens again. Often my own, I must confess, but also the kind that I place on others’ shoulders. The question about whether I lift a finger…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

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The Challenges of Writing about Teaching

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. This piece is a slightly adapted version of a recent editorial written for the International Journal of Christianity and Education. In the preface to his recent book Transforming Fire: Imagining…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

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Motes, Beams, and Stories about Students

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. While browsing through some past Faith Animating Learning blog articles, I came across a helpful piece by Louis Markos on “Teaching in a Post-COVID world.” Part of the piece offers…

David I. SmithMay 31, 2023

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A Morning of Re-Reading Badly (And Perhaps Occasionally Well)

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. This morning a little space opened up in my schedule, and I have been re-reading a long-familiar book. The physical volume is old and worn. In fact, it was re-issued…

David I. SmithApril 11, 2022

Faith and Teaching

Lost in translation? Accessing past Christian educational reflection

Positions, Perspectives, and Practices

Civic Hospitality, Pedagogical Engagement, and Faith-Framed Learning

Hospitality, Teaching, and Pauses for Reflection

The Rhythms of Imagined Faith

The Courage to Begin

A Teacher’s Burdens (And Who Shoulders Them)

The Challenges of Writing about Teaching

Motes, Beams, and Stories about Students

A Morning of Re-Reading Badly (And Perhaps Occasionally Well)

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