The Wabash Center
We support teachers of religion and theology in higher education through meetings and workshops, grants, consultants, a journal and other resources to make accessible the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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All of our programs are funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.
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Dialogue On Teaching Podcast
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.
Latest Updates to Website
- Announcing: 2021-22 Early Career Workshops
- The “I” That Teaches – Dr. Eddie Glaude
- Wabash Webinars
- Dialogue On Teaching Podcast – Episodes 1-97
- Issue 1:3 of the Wabash Center ‘s Journal On Teaching
- NEW Selected Resources Available
- Syllabus Collection Update
- Teaching Justice: Resources for the Times
- Teacher’s Art Corner
- Call for Blogs/Vlogs: Teaching and Learning During Crisis
- Selected Resources – Teaching Online
- Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield – Director’s Webpage
- The “I” That Teaches – Dr. Mitzi Smith
- Lilly Endowment Launches National Initiative to Help Congregations Thrive
UPDATED 19 January 2021
Teaching On The Pulse Blog Series
This monthly blog provides updates on the Wabash Center’s doings and happenings. As well, it is a space where Lynne shares her insights, commentary, and opinion on issues of teaching, learning, and justice in theology and religion. This blog is meant to be evocative, even provocative. You are welcome to use her blog entries to spark dialogue in your classrooms, among your faculty and with your administrators. CLICK TO CONTINUE »
Latest Blog Posts
From Invocation to Inquiry: Pedagogical Choices under Constraint - Democracy, in its essence, and genius, is imaginative love for and identification with a community with which, much of the time and in many ways, one may be in profound […]
“Pandemic Education” is not the same as “Online Education” - I am often asked some version of the following question: “How has it been teaching online now?” For those of us who teach at schools with in-person learning, I imagine […]
Featured Video Series
The “I” That Teaches
A video project that invites senior scholars to talk about their teaching lives. CLICK TO CONTINUE »
Latest Syllabi
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Selected Topics
Despair and Hope
Draws upon a variety of disciplines to examine despair and hope from theoretical and applied perspectives… -
Selected Topics
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Combines the perspectives of religious studies and peace, justice, and conflict studies to examine forgiveness and reconciliation and their role in conflict resolution and the creation of just and peaceful societies… -
Religious Ethics
Christian Social Ethics
A critical introduction to normative Christian social ethics on selected contemporary moral issues such as war, racism, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation…
The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching
The Wabash Center’s new open access online journal on teaching
Sustains our leadership established by 21 years of editing Teaching Theology & Religion (published by Wiley).