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 […]
Issue: October 2023
Hospitality
Guest-edited by David I. Smith
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 […]
Hospitality
Like many of our most important words, “hospitality” can carry a range of meanings. In contrast to the slick imagery of the […]