The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Joseph Tucker Edmonds, PhD is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. 

Lakisha R. Lockhart, PhD is Associate Professor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary. 

Angela D. Sims, PhD is President of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School.

Christine J. Hong, PhD is Associate Professor of Educational Ministry and Lead Professor of the DEdMin Program at Columbia Theological Seminary. 

Tat-siong Benny Liew, Ph. D. is Professor, Class of 1956 Chair in New Testament Studies at Holy Cross College.  In this rich and reflective conversation, Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield and Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew explore the complexities of mentoring within academic and theological contexts. They discuss mentoring as a relational, communal, and intergenerational practice rather than a top-down, ego-dr...

Ryan Bonfiglio, PhD. is Associate Professor in the Practice of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology and Executive Director of The Candler Foundry.

Donald Quist is Assistant of English at the University of Missouri and Educational Design Manager at the Wabash Center. He is author of many articles, essays, and books including the literary tryptic To Those Bounded, For Other Ghosts, and Harbors.  

Jesse D. Mann is Theological Librarian with Drew University. 

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 . Donald Quist is Assistant of English at the University of Missouri and Educational Design Manager at the Wabash Center. He is author of many articles, essays, and books including the literary tryptic To...

Eric Lewis Williams, Ph. D. is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School. 

Eric Lewis Williams, Ph. D. is Director of the Office of Black Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.  Williams quotes Zora Neale Hurston, "I was born with God in my house." Hear a scholar's story of having been raised in a Pentecostal household, mentored into the scholarship of religion with no contradiction, and working...

Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University. 

Adam Bond, PhD is Associate Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Baylor University.  Teaching to unlock new abilities to see. Imagining new futures, building new worlds, seeing new possibilities can be incorporated into our classrooms if teachers can unshackle their own creativity. Bond reflects on a recent Wabash cohort experience which challenged participants to move past nostal...

Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Ph. D. is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies  at Queen's University.

Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Ph. D. is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Gender Studies  at Queen's University. A sabbatical provides precious time but also points to exploitation, exhaustion, and rage. What is a generative sabbatical, especially when resisting dehumanizing patterns of productivity? What kinds of synergies are needed for a healthy work rhythm that resists burnout?...

Sharon Higginbothan, PhD is the Founder and Principle of the Higginbothan and Associates LLC where they do coaching, group facilitation, and consultation. She is also Adjunct Professor of Liberation and Womanist Theology at Chatham University.  For those who feel disillusioned by the professorate - even when having had accomplishments, for those who have invested in individualism over and against...

Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green are Associate Directors for the Wabash Center.  If teaching is not about control, what approach is better? How do you create an environment for learning which takes into consideration the entire experience of the student? What is the prerequisite of learning for adult students? What does it mean to create an arc of learning across an entire semester? What kind of in...

Dr. Shatavia Wynn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. 

Sharon Higginbothan, PhD is the Founder and Principle of the Higginbothan and Associates LLC where they do coaching, group facilitation, and consultation. She is also Adjunct Professor of Liberation and Womanist Theology at Chatham University.  When we work until we are physically, mentally, and spiritually sick we are participating in being exploited by grind culture. When is enough enough? Sabba...

Dr. Shatavia Wynn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College.  Our communities form us, but effort (to say nothing of time and distance) may be required to understand how. Wynn's folks taught through care, deep listening and storytelling. Wynn discusses the realization of just how formative those relationships are to current teaching approaches now and into the future.

Rev. Valerie Miles-Tribble, PhD DMin is Professor of Ministerial Leadership & Practical Theology at Berkeley School of Theology. 

Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green are Associate Directors for the Wabash Center.  Pursuing one's curiosity, seeking adventure, being open to mystery and problem solving is the stuff of good teaching, even if structures of academia would disagree or discourage. Learning reminds us of our humanity. Students can be some of our best teachers. 

Rachelle R. Green is an Associate Director for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Rolf R. Nolasco is the Rueben P. Job Professor of Spiritual Formation and Pastoral Theology and Director of the Rueben P. Job Institute for Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.  Since we are conditioned to believe that thinking is the best way of knowing, what would it mean to rethink what we consider to be knowledge? What if our students know more than we know, then ho...