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
Episodes
287 episodes
Librarians are Partners in Teaching: Kelly Campbell
Kelly Campbell is Associate Dean of Information Services and Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary. A healthy ecology of teaching includes librarians and libraries. Libraries are magica...
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Teaching to Live - Almeda M. Wright
Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, adolescent spiritual development, and the interesections of religion and public life.We discuss W...
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23:14
Mindy McGarrah Sharp: Silhouette Interview
Mindy McGarrah Sharp is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care as well as Lead Faculty in the Master of Arts in Practical Theology Program at Columbia Theological School.
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29:55
Disappointed! in Scholarly Job: Willie James Jennings
Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. The disappointment is real! Early career colleagues report their disappointment after joining a faculty.&n...
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Anti-Racism As Daily Practice: Jennifer Harvey
The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Harvey is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean at Garrett Evangelical Seminary.The New York Times bestselling author discusses why her scholarship of religion focuses upon issues of race and an...
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Administration - Not for Everyone: Willie James Jennings
Willie James Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. Administrative duties are a work of care for the thriving of all in the community. Being a good administra...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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