Hospitality and Schools: Four Lenses

If we want to think about hospitality and schools, we might be tempted to go straight to questions of personal warmth. We […]

Don’t Be a Jonah

As a teacher in a Christian high school—and a social studies teacher at that—the past few years politically have been a little […]

Herman Who? Hermeneutics, Hospitality, and the Bible Classroom

“I don’t like the apostle Paul.”  The assertion came after reading one of the particularly thorny and hard-hitting passages from one of […]

Hospitality, Politics, and Human Nature

While there is still a little over a year before the formal election day takes place in November 2024 for American voters, […]

Civic Hospitality and the Challenges of/to Pluralism

Nearly a decade ago, my university and our sibling seminary took an unconventional path to a prison-education program. We could have focused […]

Our Civics and God’s Hospitality 

What makes a civics course “Christian”? While there are an infinite number of ways in which a teacher might approach such a […]

Teaching and Learning Civic Hospitality: Where Do We Start?

 This essay first appeared in Christian Teachers Journal volume 31 issue 1 and is reproduced here by permission. In too many contexts […]

The Overwhelming, Never-­Ending Silence of God: Teaching Shūsaku Endō’s Silence in a Christian School

In our modern North American churches, we often sing of the “overwhelming, never-­ending, reckless love of God” to remind us of how […]

Found Families: An Idea for Blending Whole-­Class Novels and Student Choice in Middle School and High School English Classrooms

The ideas in this article spring from three important identities I carry in my heart: reader, teacher, and child in the family […]

Hi, My Name Is . . .

We have all been there before. One hand in your pocket, the other hand holding a beverage while you engage in small […]