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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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Here’s Your Assignment

This post originally appeared on the Christian Scholar’s Review blog, and is reproduced with permission. During focus group research for the book Digital Life Together, two secondary school students offered the following reflections about what happens when their teachers assign reading tasks: we’ll ask ,…

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

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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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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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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

Spiritual Development

Hospitality, Teaching, and Pauses for Reflection

The Rhythms of Imagined Faith

Here’s Your Assignment

Motes, Beams, and Stories about Students

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

Learning to Pray

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 3

Students and Vocation in the Present Tense: Part 2

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

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