Across the Curriculum, Across the Hall
I am a product of Christian education from kindergarten through college. I loved my education and am grateful for how it shaped […]
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Relational Virtues in the Science Classroom
In my first few years of teaching, nothing made me more nervous than when students asked science questions I couldn’t answer. I’d […]
Controversy as Opportunity: A Symposium on Origins within a Christian Secondary School
Observers of Christian schools and the wider American culture know the depths of controversy elicited in recent debates by the topic of […]
Rejoicing in Resurrection and Expunging Excrement: Teaching Science in the High School Bible Classroom
How old is the earth and what do the days of creation measure? Was the flood local or global? How much of […]
The Nature of the Nature of Science
After nearly twenty years of teaching science at the secondary level, I have come to a concerning realization: being a Christian, teaching […]
Teach FASTly: Faith and Science as a Pedagogical Challenge
We live in an age in which what we think we know from science is modified daily, theological stances on current issues […]
Science and the Christian Faith in the 21st Century
Fifty years have passed since I took my first college biology course. In 1967, the genetic code had just been deciphered. For […]
Sacred Space Pedagogy
by Debra Paxton-Buursma and Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk Sacred Space Pedagogy is animated by a fundamental belief that God intended space to be […]
Sacred Learning Spaces As Sanctuary
by Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk with Paul Dull and Mark Ponstine “So the classroom where truth is central will be a place where […]
Powerful Positioning: Texts, Actions, and Objects
by Debra Paxton-Buursma with John Booy, Kathy DeJong, Mark Ponstine, Aubree Cantral, Jeanine Bakker, Janorisè Robinson, Becca Brasser, and Shanna Pargellis How […]