Didaktikos"Joshua is not intended to be used as a study of applied ethics." - John Walton
by B.J. Oropeza | Azusa Pacific University Consider pictures and their indirect power to communicate. In American culture, Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photo of V-J Day portrays a returning sailor smooching a passing nurse with such force that the...
by Mark Strauss | Bethel Seminary This is the last of five articles addressing the multiple hats we as professors wear, including research and writing, teaching, mentoring students, ministry in the church, and administrative roles. My goal...
Timothy Gatewood | Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary In a time when teaching success is defined by pragmatic, content-based assessment, I would like to offer a different path forward: teaching as ontological formation. Rather than viewing...
Exploring the Relationship between Education and Spiritual Formation Jeff Dryden | Covenant College Last semester I assigned the classic C. S. Lewis text The Abolition of Man to my New Testament Ethics class. Although it had been at least a decade...
"What is clear, however, is that one of the chief aims of the theological educator is the growth of individuals into deeper people."
David McNutt | IVP Academic This summer, our family got a pet. We had held off for a long time—much longer than our kids wanted us to—but we finally thought that the time was right. Before we made a choice, though, we did some research about what...
Dustin Burlet | Peace River Bible Institute T. Desmond Alexander once stated, with respect to teaching the Old Testament, that it is “difficult to think of any other academic subject that covers such a wide range of fields. How does one do justice...
"We must work to keep education personal in whatever ways are possible."
"Have a plan in place if you don’t get that tenure-track job."
COMMUNITY, CULTURE, AND THE QUEST FOR DISCOVERY A Conversation with Robert W. Yarbrough From lumberjack to professor may not be the most obvious career change, but for Robert W. Yarbrough, both represent hard labor. During his thirty-six years of...
LISSA M. WRAY BEAL | PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY The Old Testament speaks of the importance of memory. For instance, Deuteronomy repeatedly calls for remembrance (5:15; 7:18; 8:18 et passim), Israel recounts its history in Psalms (105, 106), and failure...
Mark S. Gignilliat | Beeson Divinity School The proverbial mid-life whatever-you-wish-to-call-it exists in one form or another, and the academic is especially vulnerable. The hamster’s wheel of academic life can charm and dull at the same time. In...
SETH M. EHORN | WHEATON COLLEGE There it was—the most beautiful cathedral I had ever seen. But not just beautiful. Enormous! It was the summer of 2011, and I was spending the month of July studying French in Paris. As part of my experience, I...
"Teaching students to examine a passage for these oral conventions can achieve multiple pedagogical goals in graduate and undergraduate Bible courses."
"Paying attention to these basic details can pay huge exegetical dividends when it comes to interpreting the strange roles [pronouns] can play in discourse."
Ryan Griffith | Indianapolis Theological Seminary Although library archives are most often the domain of historians and other students of the humanities, research interests will take seminary faculty into the archives from time to time. Even...
"My goal as a professor is for you to do what you need to do here at the church—not just always rely on, as you were saying, things from the West, but to have there be a mutuality."
Integrate Knowledge and Praxis Through Contextual Teaching and Learning Kristen Ferguson | Gateway Seminary If information automatically led to transformation, then it would be easy. We could upload our fact-filled videos, pour ourselves another...
Google Classroom . . . has great potential to meet several institutional needs and can be easily adopted for theological education.
"I propose that biblical and theological scholars leave North America and learn a new language, then teach in their fields through the medium of that new language."
The prayer guide Operation World has taught me much over the years. By its estimates, only 16.7 percent of Christians lived in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 1900. That figure rose to 63.2 percent by 2010 and is projected to reach 70 percent in...
"Don’t be shy about being your type of mentor. It’s your motive that counts, not the method or formula you use to mentor."
"Seminary students want to know and be known in their classes. If you are committed to caring for your students, they will respond and engage."
"I want to teach in such a way that there is intra-trinitarian presence in teaching. If it is about the overarching plan of God, it is about the Holy Spirit revealing the Scriptures, and it is about Christ being magnified."
If you tell the story of Jesus according to Mark and set yourself up as the brilliant professor whose insights will ultimately rescue students from the dark tyranny of ignorance, you have not actually taught Mark’s way. You must be the punchline of...
Sue Edwards | Dallas Theological Seminary How you view women influences how you teach them. Paul uses familial language to describe Christian relationships, and I’ve found this imagery useful in creating a healthy classroom ethos where both women...
An Example of Co-Teaching as a Means of Modeling Interdisciplinary Dialogue Eric J. Tully | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School One of the challenges in Christian higher education is navigating the tension between various fields of study. Christian...
Let me encourage you, as a professor, to get involved—or stay involved—in ministry
Dougald McLaurin | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Last fall a student walked into the library and asked me where the commentaries on the book of Romans were located. He said he needed them for an exegesis paper he was writing. I asked...