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Faith and Finances
A course by Gary Hoag pitched at multiple levels of higher education analyzes Christian perspectives on money and stewardship.

Spiritual Ecology

Living Religions of the West
A 1999 course by Daniel Breslauer at the University of Kansas introduces "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."

Old Testament Theology and History
A 2013 course by John Kessler at Tyndale Seminary surveys the history and theology of the Hebrew Bible.

Teaching Contextual Attentiveness in a Preaching Classroom
My project will empower students to become more contextually attentive preachers through a) employing teaching strategies that leverage a multiplicity of voices across various preaching traditions, b) assigning audio and video sermons inside and outside of class in which students see and hear from a diverse representation of preachers; c) ...

Achieving More Effective Biblical Preaching Through Interdisciplinary Teaching of Contemporary Biblical Interpretation in a Catholic M.Div. Curriculum
Support for a gathering of up to twenty M.Div faculty in biblical studies and homiletics for two meetings to identify and discuss collaborative approaches for effectively teaching biblical interpretation for preaching.

Integrating Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Classroom: Holistic Teaching for Holistic Preaching
As early career teachers, we have both experienced insecurity and fear in our classrooms that brings us out of our bodies and disconnects us from our sense of God and people. We will take steps toward overcoming this disconnection because we believe that teaching (and preaching) is strongest when the ...

Disentangling Assessment Practices in the Introductory Preaching Class

Disrupting a Single Chronological Narrative to Teach a More Racially Just and Ethnically Inclusive History of Christianity in the United States

Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable Results: Emerging Research and Opportunities
As higher education continues to grapple with expanding online coursework in meaningful ways, faculty must confront a perennial question: how can online coursework mirror the rigor of in-person classes while preserving the flexibility that makes online learning attractive to students? In Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable ...

Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time
Concerns about mastery of learning outcomes or competencies, grade inflation, student motivation, and faculty time compel reflection on how we assess students in higher education. In Specifications Grading, Nilson critiques the traditional, point-based grading system and argues that students should be assessed on whether they have mastered course learning outcomes. ...

Understanding Bible by Design: Create Courses with Purpose
Lester, Webster, and Jones came together from different academic contexts to create a practical, succinct resource for professors on course design. Lester and his co-authors set out to demonstrate how the principles of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s 2005 updated Understanding by Design (UbD) model can be applied to theological ...

Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
Mark C. Carnes’s Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College is the work of a true believer seeking the conversion of others to the path of right pedagogical practice. Fortunately, the approach he advocates, teaching history through month-long, immersive, student-led role-play, seems a worthy recipient of his impassioned ...

Teaching in the Cracks
Teaching in the Cracks: Openings and Opportunities for Student-Centered, Action-Focused Curriculum Brian D. Schultz New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2017 (xiv + 128 pages, ISBN 9780807758311, $29.95) Teaching in the Cracks by Brian D. Schultz, a professor of education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, explores ways to make current K-12 classrooms more student-empowering, ...