The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, Ph.D., is the monthly podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series will feature dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversation will illumine the teaching life.Webinar Producer: Rachel Mills Sound Engineer: Dr. Paul O. Myhre Original Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre
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281 episodes since 2020
About Contract Faculty: Roger S. Nam
Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. What are the constructive aspects of being contract faculty? If you spend your career as...
August 01, 2024
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21:03
Unchanged Demographics of Faculty
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.Data show that the kinds of persons we bring into doctoral programs and hire onto faculty remain relatively unchanged. In what ways can directors of grad...
July 25, 2024
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28:42
Studying the Institutional Ecology: Roger S. Nam
Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. When at the dawn of your career, how do you learn the institutional power dynamics, the unspok...
July 18, 2024
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33:48
Bible in the Public Square: Steed Davidson
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.What does it mean to examen the influences of the bible upon contemporary society? In what ways can classrooms encourage understandings of the bible's co...
July 11, 2024
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27:46
Coping with Professional Grief: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt Universi...
July 03, 2024
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30:37
Misperceptions About Administration - Roger S. Nam
Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology. What makes for mediocre, good, and exceptional administrators? Who should consider administrat...
June 28, 2024
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25:01
Administration as Vocation: Steed Davidson
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.In what ways do faculty positions prepare you for administrative jobs? What kind of professional formation is needed to be an administrator? How importan...
June 18, 2024
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26:00
Transitions in Life & Mental Health: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt Universi...
June 13, 2024
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28:15
Artificial Intelligence, Theology and Teaching: Philip Butler
Philip Butler is Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Post-Human Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology. What if teaching had the audacity to pose questions which disrupts reality? What if the disruption w...
June 05, 2024
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24:19
Understanding Neurodivergence & Accommodations: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements at Vanderbilt Universi...
May 29, 2024
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25:38
What Counts as Teacher Failure?: Angela Parker
Angela Parker, PhD is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek with Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.Adult students sometimes feel confronted or disrespected when their personal faith is disrupted in bible and theolog...
May 21, 2024
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24:01
Questioning to Make Connections: Richelle White
Richelle White, PhD is Professor of Youth Ministry and Director of Field Practicum and Internships and Kuyper College. Questioning as a tool of teaching is a skill to be developed and honed. Facilitating dialogue with provocative, ...
May 14, 2024
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23:39
Taking Scholarship to the Public: Angela Parker
Angela Parker, PhD is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek with Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.People in the public are curious about, and hungry for, conversations on bible and religion. What if scholars intent...
May 07, 2024
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22:10
Justice Agendas in Theological Education: Sarah F. Farmer
Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center. What happens when scholarship is the work of passion and social change? What happens when learning mobilizes persons for liberation? What if theological education focused upo...
April 30, 2024
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13:59
Teaching and Restorative Hope: Sarah Farmer
Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center. A conversation on Dr. Farmer's latest book pointing toward the ways hope is life giving. Hope is not sanitized - not a luxury. Hope is about possibility, survival, creativity...
April 16, 2024
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16:41
Classroom Dynamics: Emily O. Gravett
Emily O. Gravett is the Assistant Director of the Teaching Area in the Center for Faculty Innovation and Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University. The power dynamics of classrooms are as varied as the teachers an...
April 09, 2024
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26:30
Embracing Diverse Learners and Complex Classrooms: Aizaiah G. Yong
Rev. Dr. Aizaiah G. Yong is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at Claremont School of Theology. What does it take to create a classroom experience where the relational ethos among diverse learners is that we belong to one an...
April 02, 2024
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25:36
Teaching, Spirit & Prisons: Luke Powery
The Rev. Dr. Luke Powery is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Professor of Homiletics and African and African American Studies at Duke Divinity School. In this conversation, hear stories of what happened when teaching spirituals i...
March 26, 2024
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28:14
Dreaming - Returning to Ancient Pedagogies - Kenneth Ngwa
Dr. Kenneth Ngwa is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Religion and Global Health Forum at Drew University Theological School.Dreams are states of the awake and the asleep. Dreaming is a pedagogical space for vibrancy, nurturing,...
March 19, 2024
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33:24
The End of Theological Education: Ted A. Smith
Dr. Ted A. Smith is Associate Dean of Faculty and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity.What could happen if several scholars, writing in community, grappled with the shifting of theological education then made their learning...
January 30, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 203
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27:12
Writing Better: Sophfronia Scott
Sophfronia Scott is Director of the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Alma College in Alma, MI and author a numerous books including Wild Beautiful and Free and The Seeker and the Monk.Teaching scholars to wr...
January 23, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 202
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30:28
Teaching to Impact Society: Elías Ortega
Elías Ortega is President and Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Leadership at Meadville Lombard Theological School.What would it take for theological education to become an agent of social impact? How could theological education help ...
January 16, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 201
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36:26
Educating and Crisis: Jennifer Harvey
Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is Vice President of Academic Affairs and Academic Dean and Professor of Christian Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological SeminaryIn an aching world, what does it take to make education accessible, meaningful,...
January 09, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 200
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30:10
Aim of Teaching?: Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
Rev. Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi is Assistant Professor of Leadership and FormationDirector of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology.Education is a formational endeavor. Explicit and implicit teaching outco...
December 19, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 199
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27:24
Wisdom in Retirement: Alton B. Pollard, III
Dr. Alton B. Pollard, III is President Emeritus of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.Now in retirement, President Pollard shares his reflections, considerations, musings and convictions on the practice of rest, the benefit of...
December 12, 2023
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Season 1
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Episode 198
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37:25