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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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Ending Well

It’s the last day of 2019, and perhaps a somewhat arbitrary ending is a good opportunity to think about other, perhaps weightier, kinds of endings. A few years ago, during a conversation with a colleague about how liturgy and pedagogy are related, it struck me…

David I. SmithDecember 31, 2019

Faith and Teaching Resources Talks, Lectures, Interviews

The “Christian” Classroom

In July 2019 I spent two weeks in Australia, ending with visits to several schools in Sydney, New South Wales. While I was there, I had the opportunity to visit the Center for Public Christianity and sit down with one of their Fellows, Natasha Moore,…

David I. SmithAugust 29, 2019

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Faith & Leadership Interview: What being Christian has to do with how we teach

Formation happens not only from what students are taught but also from how they are taught, says a scholar of faith and learning. What are the implications for teachers who are Christian? Today, teaching is basically viewed as a matter of technique, says David I.…

David I. SmithMarch 5, 2019

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching

Review of Tracing the Lines: Spiritual Exercise and the Gesture of Christian Scholarship

This review of a recent book by Robert Sweetman, who exerted significant influence on my own thinking as my teacher during my M.Phil studies at the Institute for Christian Studies, was published in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, June 2018. The book is available…

David I. SmithJune 1, 2018

Faith and Teaching Scholarship Voices from the Past

Teaching Bonhoeffer: Pedagogy and Peripheral Practices

Some of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s major writings emerged from the experience of planning and leading an innovative seminary at Finkenwalde, where there was a strong focus on intentional communal practices. This article uses the process of designing an undergraduate course focused on Bonhoeffer’s book Life Together…

David I. SmithApril 18, 2017

Book Reviews Faith and Teaching Voices from the Past

The History of Theological Education—An Extended Review

This review of a useful recent volume on the history of theological education was published in Christian Scholars Review XLVII(1), 2017, 51-57. The book should be of interest not just to theological educators, but to others interested in how the Christian church has approached education…

David I. SmithMarch 31, 2017

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Christian mind ≠ Christian pedagogy

This piece was published as the editorial in International Journal of Christianity & Education 2017, Vol. 21(1), p. 2–5. A few years ago, I surveyed with colleagues four decades of output from 26 Christian and interfaith peer-reviewed journals in North America across a range of…

David I. SmithFebruary 13, 2017

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