The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

What is spiritual formation for teachers? Teaching during the chaos of the pandemic is soul work. It requires a soul pedagogy. This discussion provides insights into nurturing the spiritual awareness of teachers to better support and assist the learner. The conversation provides practices for the online classroom, encourages teachers to risk creativity and imagination, and suggests that formation...

Online teaching, even for those teachers who abruptly made the transition weeks ago, is here to stay. Improving and enriching online teaching means better use of image and storytelling.  This conversation provides insights, practices, and know-how-suggestions for including poetry, film, novels, music – all forms of the arts – into learning sessions and student assignments. The courage of being an...

This crisis moment is a time to rethink formation into being a more embodied learning. Doing theology in crisis is about prayer, intimate conversations and hope.

Teaching during the pandemic requires we care for our students as well as ourselves. This podcast features a conversation with Rachel Harding (University of Colorado, Boulder) about rebuilding spiritual practices for this uncharted moment.

Teaching online can honor the body, encourage agency and nurture intellectual community. A pedagogy of hospitality for this moment of crisis. Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Evelyn Parker (Perkins School of Theology) in this conversation. 

Leadership, in moments of crisis, must find new and ancient ways of being humane and acting creatively. This wisdom conversation with Dr. Alton Pollard, III (Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary) is a call to compassion.

Adapting new ways of teaching during the pandemic requires grace be extended to others as well as ourselves. Allow yourself to risk being creative; suspend judgement.

Less ambition and more conversational pedagogy to engage students struggling in this COVID-19 moment.

Writing for liberation of faculty voices to speak with courage and agency. 

A conversation with Dr. Steed Davidson (McCormick Theological Seminary), Dr. Teresa Delgado (Iona College) and Dr. Christopher Tirres (DePaul University) about projects that connect the classroom to the wider world for social action.

Student formation is connected to a teacher’s spirituality. Hear insights on the use of  mindfulness and imagination for re-orientation and flourishing.

What if, rather than a burden, this moment is an adventure for teachers? Dr. Beverly McGuire (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) provides insights for determining how to move forward with the rest of the semester online.

In this moment of upheaval as we switch to online learning – don’t panic!  Dr. Richard Ascough (Queen's University) helps colleagues know what questions to ask for online learning when the professor only has a moment to make the switch.

The pandemic of 2020 is changing teaching. With little to no notice, faculties have been asked to switch from face-to-face formats to teaching online. This conversation with Dr. Kimberleigh Jordan (Drew University) and Dr. Shively Smith (Boston University School of Theology) provides advice, perspective, and insights for this moment of immediate adaptation. We are glad these colleagues joined us b...

Dr. Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School) is this week’s guest on the Dialogue On Teaching podcast. Jennings and Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield discuss his upcoming book, “After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging,” which will be published in October 2020.

As we celebrate 25 years of the Wabash Center, Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts Dr. Raymond Williams, the founding Director of the Wabash Center.  Dr. Williams discusses and reminisces about the Wabash Center’s growth, starting at the beginning. 

Patricia Killen, Professor Emerita of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University and Wabash Center leader, joins Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield as they discuss learning activities in the classroom. Dr. Killen has worked with the Wabash Center in a number of capacities since the foundation of the Wabash Center. This work has included: Advisory Committee Member, Workshop Leader, Consultant, and Editor of th...

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield hosts scholars of the Asian Diaspora for a conversation in the third episode of Dialogue On Teaching . This episode’s guests include Dr. Susan Abraham (Pacific School of Religion), Dr. Boyung Lee (Iliff School of Theology), Dr. Roger Nam (Portland Seminary), Dr. Sharon Tan (Eden Theological Seminary), Dr. Mai-Anh Le Tran (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), and Dr....

In episode 2 of Dialogue on Teaching , Wabash Center Director Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield talks with Latinx professors of higher education as they discuss their perspectives on race critical consciousness and essentialism. Guests include Dr. Efrain Agosto (New York Theological Seminary), Dr. Gregory L Cuéllar (Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary), and Dr. Teresa Delgado (Iona College).

The first episode of the Wabash Center’s podcast, Dialogue On Teaching , hosted by Director Nancy Lynne Westfield.  Guests on this episode include Brian Bantum (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), Willie Jennings (Yale Divinity School), Deb Mullen (Columbia Theological Seminary), and Evelyn Parker (Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University). The group discusses race critical...