We can improve learning, ours and others. We can!!!! As an Adventist university teacher I feel deeply my inadequacy to teach and to learn. I get overwhelmed with how little I have learned and how limited the development of those…
Tag: teaching
Education and Redemption are One
Jesus and I are in the same line of work: redemption. At least that is the implication of Ellen White: “Education and redemption are one” (Education, 1903, p. 30). There are several ways people interpret that “oneness.” SAME: Jesus was…
And All the Multitude was Silent
Our university department trains leaders. We mentor leaders who face difficult and contentious conflict and have to make tough decisions. We have to train them to confront but also to find safe places to duck into. A safe place gives…
Five Words Better than 10,000: Teaching & Learning
A few weeks ago, I started to explore Paul’s point in 1 Corinthians 14 that in communication, five well-chosen and clear words are better than 10,000 wandering words. This time I apply his point to teaching. Teaching, a special form…
The Trinity, The University and Christian Professors
I teach at a faith-based university, Andrews University. We get persecuted in the blogs from left and right, from outside and inside our church. Most of the animosity gets directed at our Seminary. There is something about religious and theological…