theological education

Features

Classroom encounters

Teaching as if it really matters
Feb 13, 2002 by Ralph C. Wood
The encounter that most decisively shaped my teaching occurred during my very first year in the classroom. I was fresh out of graduate study at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and the lines of my life, as the psalmist says, had fallen in pleasant places.
Books

Religion on Campus

Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg and Amanda Porterfield

What students crave

Feb 13, 2002 reviewed by Jennifer Copeland
College is a crucible in which opinions are formed, challenged and reformed; beliefs are redefined or perhaps defined for the first time, and attitudes become more resolute. That this is so life-shaping a time has something to do with the age of most college students—late adolescence to early adulthood—but also much to do with the campus milieu.
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Classroom encounters

Growing into the wisdom of God
Feb 13, 2002 by Ellen T. Charry
Our parents are our first and most important teachers, but they cannot teach us everything. Sometimes they are not equipped to teach us some things we need. Sometimes they teach us things that we do not need. So we move at age five or so to additional teachers.