The Myth of Ability
Mathematics education has a bad rap. If you tell someone at a dinner party that you are a math teacher, they give […]
Category: Review
The Fabric of Faithfulness
As noted by Steven Garber in his introductory acknowledgements, “One gift of this study has been a deepened understanding of the role […]
NurtureShock
I am not a big fan of books on parenting skills and never have been. While I consider myself a crazed learner, […]
Top Ten Books Every Christian Educator Should Read (According to One Book Lover, Anyway)
Teaching is hard work. It doesn’t seem reasonable that teachers should be required, in addition to all the lesson planning, grading, communicating […]
Reforming Christian Education: Omelets or Worldviews?
In his 2008 bestseller, Culture Making, Andrew Crouch, a former Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship chaplain at Harvard University, makes an eloquent argument for […]
Shaping What We Love
What if education were primarily about shaping our hopes and passions? What if education were not first about what we know, but […]
Top Ten Books (Not about Teaching) to Renew You This Summer (According to One Book Lover, Anyway)
I am always amazed when I hear about teachers who belong to book clubs during the school year. My amazing wife, who […]
Journeys of the Muslim Nation and the Christian Church
My career as a history teacher began in 1970. Scholars at that time viewed medieval through modern history through the prism of […]
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
James Davison Hunter has a way of ruffling feathers, not only outside the Christian community, but also within it. His recently published […]
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
There are some things that Tim Wise would like to put on the table right now. Our success is not determined solely […]