Resources

Eric D. Barreto, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary The Apostle Paul lived in a world full of visual media. From inscriptions to monuments, the ancient world was a bonanza of sights. Our students today also live in a...

G. Brooke Lester, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, and Director for Emerging Pedagogies, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Time was, my Biblical Hebrew students and I sweated grimly in a thrice-weekly race against time. But now, with the lectures recorded (as voice-narrated...

Kwok Pui-lan, William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School What if you were to stage a debate on the black Christ, instead of giving a lecture on James Cone’s black theology? If you...

Greg Carey, Professor of New Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary We all know that our students’ social and religious contexts shape the way they understand the Bible – in theory, at least. But how do we bring that knowledge into...

Wil Gafney, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (At Brite Divinity School as of 9/2014) As the saying goes, “sometimes the old ways are best.” (Eve Moneypenny and James Bond in Skyfall, 2012) Hevruta...

Grace Ji-Sun Kim What are your favorite pastimes? Does it include a night with friends at your favorite restaurant or is it watching a movie at home, on the sofa, with snacks? Imagine your college class with movie and a...

Kate Blanchard, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Alma College The main reason I don’t lecture is cowardice, plain and simple. I have never felt brilliant or knowledgeable or charismatic enough to carry a course on my own. Thankfully, though, I...

Curricular integration remains a desire and challenge for many faculty and deans. Additionally, accreditation standards call for integration in a curriculum course of study, and increasingly, accrediting agencies call for evidence of demonstrable integration of the curriculum on the part...

Lynn Neal is Associate Professor of Religion at Wake Forest University I was sitting around the seminar table with eighteen students in a course on religion and popular culture. To get the discussion started, I asked them about the results...

Monica A. Coleman is Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology. Pedagogical Confession: I learn from lectures. I’m one of those people for whom the traditional academy was made. I listen to lectures...