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Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series will feature dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversation will illumine the teaching life.
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This monthly blog provides updates on the Wabash Center’s doings and happenings. As well, it is a space where Lynne shares her insights, commentary, and opinion on issues of teaching, learning, and justice in theology and religion. This blog is meant to be evocative, even provocative. You are welcome to use her blog entries to spark dialogue in your classrooms, among your faculty and with your administrators. CLICK TO CONTINUE »
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What Miss Frizzle Teaches Me About Teaching – Part One: Taking Chances - “Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!” – Miss Frizzle Now, I know what you may be thinking, “Miss Frizzle?!?! The teacher from the Magic School Bus? Really?” Or, better […]
Learning to Settle for Good Enough - Creating new courses just keeps getting harder. Today I finished drafting the reading list for my new course on Ethics and the Good Life for first year students. It was […]
Syllabi Collection
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Despair and Hope
Draws upon a variety of disciplines to examine despair and hope from theoretical and applied perspectives… -
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Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Combines the perspectives of religious studies and peace, justice, and conflict studies to examine forgiveness and reconciliation and their role in conflict resolution and the creation of just and peaceful societies… -
Religious Ethics
Christian Social Ethics
A critical introduction to normative Christian social ethics on selected contemporary moral issues such as war, racism, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation…