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Professors of Religious Education
1998 Consultation of Professors of Religious Education 
Dates October 30 - November 1, 1998 at Wabash College 
Leadership/Staff: Charles Foster, Candler School of Theology Lucinda Huffaker, Wabash Center For Teaching & Learning In Theology & Religion 
 Summary Eighteen professors of religious education met at Wabash College from October 30-November 1, 1998, to reflect on their ...

2005-06 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2005-06 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates July 7-12, 2005 - First Summer Session at Wabash College February 10-12, 2006 - Winter Session at Mustang Island June 14-19, 2006 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Richard Ascough, Queen's Theological College-Director Willie James Jennings, Duke University ...

2002-03 Pre-Tenure Workshop
2002-2003 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates July 18-24, 2002 - First Summer Session at Wabash College February 7-9, 2003 - Winter Session at Scottsdale, AZ July 10-15, 2003 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Elizabeth M. Bounds, Candler School of Theology-Director Theodore (Ted) Hiebert, ...

2001-02 Pre-Tenure Theological
2001-02 Workshop on Teaching and Learning for Pre-Tenure Theological School Faculty 
Dates June 21-27, 2001 - First Summer Session at Wabash College February 1-3, 2002 - Winter Session at Delray, FL June 20-25, 2002 - Second Summer Session at Wabash College 
Leadership Team Jack L. Seymour, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary-Director Michael Battle, Duke Divinity ...

Educating Clergy Grants
2006 Educating Clergy Conferences Grant Program In the winter and spring of 2006, the Wabash Center sponsored a series of six conferences to gather representatives from nearly 60 theological schools for several days of presentations and peer-to-peer conversations about the findings of two recently published studies: Educating Clergy: Teaching Practices and Pastoral Imagination, ...

Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation: A reader on theology and Christian education
Twenty-nine articles from international journals that 'will provide the reader with both a comprehensive map of how contemporary Christian theologians approach the tasks of Christian education, and also skillfully selected excursions in the complex terrain. (From the Publisher)

God our Teacher: Theological Basics in Christian Education
A topic of frequent discussion in religious education circles is the relationship between theology and practice. How does Christian theology work itself out in the teaching ministries of the church? Noted Christian education thinker Robert Pazmiño contemplates this debate and offers a contemporary overview of the messages theology brings ...

Growing in the Life of Faith: Education and Christian Practices
Craig Dykstra worked with Rev. Dr. Dorothy Bass to write Practicing Our Faith -- another classic book high on the recommended reading list. Growing in the Life of Faith explores the areas of ministry and Christian education with flair, sensitivity, and an imaginative compassion that is sure to touch and ...

"Spirituality and Higher Learning: Thinking and Loving"
What is the relationship between the life of the intellect and the life of the spirit? This is complex and painful question. In this paper I would like to approach the problem, not by jumping into the middle to answer the whole of it, but by pondering with you only ...

Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning
Few people have influenced the development of Christian schools in the Reformed tradition in North America and around the world as much as Nicholas Wolterstorff. As a tribute to his contributions, educators Gloria Goris Stronks and Clarence W. Joldersma have drawn together the world-renowned Christian philosopher's thoughts and reflections on ...

Ten Tips (and Hard Truths) for New Teachers in Theological Education
It is intimidating to write this blog because I am by no means an expert who has all the answers to the toughest questions about teaching in theological education. But I do want to offer these tips and hard truths. Some of what I share is a distillation of wise ...

A Reflection on Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn
As an educator, I seek to structure learning spaces that are caring, hospitable, and collaborative, nurturing a community of learners in search of truth under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Effective education involves concepts to be shared and critiqued (lectures, readings), cases to be solved (examples, case studies, supervised ...

Does Theological Education for Purple Churches Require a Purple Seminary?
I think every theological educator asks themselves some form of the following question: What is the raison d’être for my teaching? Sometimes this reflection manifests in a functional way amid the immediacy of constructing a syllabus as we interrogate our learning objectives. But there are also moments where we ...

Theological Education is Due for a Reckoning
In 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing a story about slavery. Stowe’s father, Lyman Beecher, was a pastor of Presbyterian and Congregational congregations in New York and Connecticut before moving with his family to Cincinnati, Ohio, to serve as president of Lane Seminary, a Presbyterian institution, in 1832. As a young ...

Music as a Way to Build Bridges in Religious Education
During my teaching experience in Zambia, music became an important part of the day-to-day life of my students’ coursework. When I first asked the students to share about things they valued from their own culture, one of the elements they mentioned was their love for music. As I was to ...

Christian Education in Relation to Creation
A course by Mary Hess at Luther Seminary examines "questions of environmental education and their relation to Christian education."

Approaches in the Christian Education of Children
A 2012 course by Julia Gillett at Phillips Theological Seminary "is an introduction to resources for and approaches to Christian education with children."

Multiple Intelligences and Christian Education
A 2013 course by Bradley Wigger at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary "is an opportunity to study theories of intelligence and learning that recognize multiple domains of human knowing and to reflect upon their significance in relation to the life of faith and educational ministries. We will explore theological, ethical, and cultural ...

Educational Ministry and Spiritual Formation
A 2018 course by Carmichael Crutchfield at Memphis Seminary prepares "educators, pastors and other leaders in the church to effectively design, implement, lead, and evaluate Christian education endeavors and to gain a working understanding of Spiritual Formation."

Theological Education in the Parish
A 2014 course by Tamar Wasoian at Garrett-Evangelical Theological School "focuses on the dynamics of Christian education as a vital component of the ministry of the church. It combines insights from the field of education with the call of the church to teach and educate."

"Metaphorical Mapping: The Arts in Graduate Theological Education"
Doctoral students in Bible, theology, ethics, history, preaching, worship, pastoral care, and Christian education come together for a required seminar in teaching. Assignments include reading and discussion, student-led teaching demonstrations, and the 'metaphorical mapping' of each student's field of study. In developing their 'metaphorical maps' students use artistic and expressive ...

"Progressive Case Study"
One page Teaching Tactic: using a series of case studies through the semester in a Christian Education classroom.

Consultation on New Media for Professors of Christian Education
We find ourselves constantly striving to stay current with the means and opportunities of new media. We propose to bring new media specialists into dialogue with Christian education faculty of four theological seminaries in Atlanta to create a space where faculty can envision ways to advance teaching and learning about ...

Engaging Diversity: Developing Faculty Capacities in Teaching and Institutional Vision
This grant aims to build an Interdisciplinary Faculty Diversity Group to develop and deepen capacities to engage diversity in teaching and learning. It aims for institutional change that welcomes and negotiates complex diversity. This project, with the support of the Principal, will involve six (half) of the Faculty in a ...

Generative Congregations for Theological Field Education
Support for a project that seeks to identify critical qualities of teaching congregations that distinguish them as generative centers for theological field education.

Teaching and Learning toward Eco-Justice: Where Sustainability and Social Justice Meet in Theological Education
Funding will support the development of a three-day consultation exploring the pedagogical problems and possibilities that accompany theological education that connects ecology and social justice. This consultation will gather, from around the nation, ten professors in graduate level theological education who teach “ecology and theological studies” and who desire to ...

Congregational Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Contextualize Teaching in Theological Education
Support for a study leave project that concerns the intersections between congregational studies and teaching-learning in theological education. The purpose of the project is to explore the use of congregational studies as an important and valuable tool for teaching and learning across the disciplines in theological education, contributing to a ...

Education in a Catholic Perspective
Higher education is in a state of flux amidst a cache of challenges that might be cast as a new set of unanticipated three R’s: recruitment, retention, and reserves. As college administrators strategize for the future, the shifting demographics in traditionally student-rich areas and the overall decreased pool of ...

Integrating Work in Theological Education
This intriguing 20-article volume edited by Kathleen Cahalan, Edward Foley, and Gordon Mikoski explores the question of integration in theological education. The editors, who also author multiple articles in this book, divide this text into four sections – schools, curriculums, courses, and frameworks – to engage integration. The authors represent a variety ...

Theological Education: Foundations, Practices, and Future Directions
This edited volume of 21 articles explores the biblical and theological perspectives, historical foundations, current practices, and future directions of theological education in Australia and was published as part of the Australian College of Theology Monograph Series. The authors represent a wide array of theological disciplines including church history, Old Testament, ...

What Does the Bible Say? A Critical Conversation with Popular Culture in a Biblically Illiterate World
Mary Ann Beavis and Hyeran Kim-Cragg, a biblical scholar and a practical theologian, respectively, address a number of topics that are engaged by people outside of the contours of usual religious contexts; those who tacitly or consciously engage with scriptural and religious themes. It is this audience that the authors ...

Student Motivation and Quality of Life in Higher Education
Student Motivation and Quality of Life in Higher Education provides readers a constructive overview of the relationship between student motivation and quality of life (QOL) in higher education. In five parts comprising twenty-three chapters, the book presents a wide range of topics and emphases. Part I, “Student perspectives,” offers two ...