Archives for June 2025
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Asperger’s, Art, and Teaching
Blog Series: Embodied Teaching
June 11, 2025
Tags: embodied teaching | art | creativity | painting | Buddhism | Asperger's | Autism
I hinted in my previous post that maybe I should do an illustrated version of my in-process book, Zen and the Artful Buddhist: Asperger’s, Art, and Academia. I have illustrated a few pages, but it’s taking far longer than I imagined it would. This book idea has been ...
Cultivating Your Sound in a Time of Despair
Blog Series: Teaching Identity
June 04, 2025
Tags: AAR | SBL | Voice | BIPOC | Teaching Identity | the man | After Whiteness
The following is adapted from a talk given by Dr. Jennings during the 2024 Wabash Center’s BIPOC Faculty Luncheon at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). You sound What do you sound like in the rain, Standing between claps ...
Permission Giving
Blog Series: Teaching On The Pulse
June 01, 2025
Tags: teaching theology | academic freedom | teaching and healing | faculty empowerment | educational transformation | permission to rest | pedagogy and liberation | faculty wellbeing | work life balance in academia | higher education culture | resisting grind culture
The Wabash Center teaches toward freedom in hopes of liberation and healing. We have learned that acts of freedom occur in many forms, and occasionally involve receiving permission. Since 2019, I have had the honor of reading the feedback forms completed by participants at the end of events and programming experiences. ...