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 […]
Cultivating Space for Christian Practices in our Science Classrooms
Our shared imagination of classroom science is created by the images, words, texts, and activities in which the class participates. For example, […]
Remodeling Suggestions from the Builders: Ideas for Rethinking Christian Schools
by Bill Boerman-Cornell, Steven Harrison, and Neil Okuley When we taught in various Christian schools, there were moments when each of us […]