October 2023
Uncategorized Editorial Like many of our most important words, “hospitality” can carry a range of meanings. In contrast to the slick imagery of the [...] Article 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 [...] Article 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 [...] Article 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 [...] Article 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, [...] Article 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 [...] Article 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 [...] Article As a teacher in a Christian high school—and a social studies teacher at that—the past few years politically have been a little [...]