The Good and Beautiful Community
Smith, James Bryan. The Good and Beautiful Community: Following the Spirit, Extending Grace, Demonstrating Love. Downers Grover, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010. James […]
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Reality and Hope for Gay Youth in Christian Communities
Disclaimer: The following opinions do not claim to represent the views of any person or institution other than the author. The ideas […]
Navigating Transgender Journeys
What role ought teachers and the school community play when a student expresses significant gender confusion? This is one of the most […]
Creating and Protecting Safe Space for LGBT Students
To my seventh-grade classmates at my Christian middle school in suburban Michigan, I was a pastor’s kid who played soccer, wore braces, […]
Dealing with Complexity
This issue may cause a certain amount of discomfort in our school communities or even within us personally as Christian educators. No […]
Cultivating Grace-Shaped Communities
“Forty percent of the students in my senior-level university class have diagnosed mental health disorders,” she said quietly, “and I have an […]
Healthy Workplaces
We have all seen it—students who are overwhelmed by discouragement at their inability to “meet the standard” expected of them in their […]
Current Events in our Classrooms
As educators, we interact on a daily basis with students who are influenced by what goes on around them in the world. […]
The Spiritual Lessons of Emerging Adulthood
The student’s words unsettled me. We had been discussing the topic of courage, the letting go of our fears so that we […]
Teachers Matter: Communities of Inquiry for Professional Learning and Development
To ensure a higher standard of learning, schools must insist on the best possible quality of teaching and create an […]