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Our blogs are now housed on our new Wabash Center website: https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/blog/ Continue reading

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Kwok Pui-lan William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality Episcopal Divinity School On election night last year when Donald Trump won the presidential election, I was traveling in Greece visiting the historical and religious sites. Several days before the election, I visited the Acropolis and climbed up Mars Continue reading

Debra Majeed Professor of Religious Studies Beloit College Lack of awareness about what Islam is and how its followers are religiously motivated to act, coupled with heightened tensions during the 2016 presidential campaign about the patriotism of American Muslims, led me to offer “Arabs and Muslims in the Media” as Continue reading

Miguel A. De La Torre Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies Iliff School of Theology I am convinced that all eurocentric philosophical thought and movements – yes all – are oppressive to those who come from colonized spaces. When I contemplate every philosophical contribution made by the so-called Age Continue reading

Meena Sharify-Funk, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair Religion and Culture Department Wilfrid Laurier University Due to the diversity of Muslims in the southern Ontario region, my classes on Islam always bring together students from a variety of different sectarian, legalistic as well as interpretive, understandings of Islam. For instance, in. Continue reading

Angel Santiago-Vendrell Associate Professor of Evangelism Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando Campus For the last two years, I have taught a required class on evangelism for ordination at the United Methodist Church at Asbury Theological Seminary on the Orlando Campus during the summer and January terms. The course is structured as an intensive class delivered over five days. Over these two years, I have never had an African American student in class. For example, in the J-Term of 2015, there were 11 white students: 9 males and 2 females. In the summer of 2015, there were 22 students: 12 males (2... Continue reading

One of the most critical skills theological school deans need, arguably now more than ever before, is that of problem-solving. The challenges facing theological schools continue to become more technologically complex, socially entangled, costly, and multi-faceted. It is evident that most deans are not just dealing with programmatic, administrative, and... Continue reading

Rebekka King Assistant Professor Middle Tennessee State University As an anthropologist of religion, I have advocated that the skills one develops in an ethnographic setting are necessarily translated to the classroom. I’m a proponent of creating a space for students to serve as experts and to speak to their own. Continue reading

Martin Nguyen Associate Professor, Faculty Chair for Diversity Fairfield University The questions and challenges concerning the teaching of Islam and race that I raised last year in “Teaching Islamic Theology through Black Lives” are no less urgent and relevant now as they were then. In that contribution, I attempted to Continue reading

Nancy Lynne Westfield Associate Professor of Religious Education Drew University Theological School The car service arrived at my house. I grabbed my purse, suitcase, and briefcase and hurried out the door making sure it was locked behind me. As scheduled, we stopped to pick up a colleague who was also Continue reading

Randy Woodley Distinguished Professor of Faith and Culture George Fox University and Portland Seminary Allow me to be honest. There are few things in my job that I dislike more than having a conversation with someone who is feigning objectivity or neutrality. I call it academic pretense. I cherish conversations. Continue reading

Elliott Bazzano Assistant Professor Le Moyne College In two classes that I teach—“Islam” and “The Qur’an”—I often assign the film Wadjda (dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012) as the first homework assignment. Wadjda tells the tale of a young girl (same name as the film’s title) in Saudi Arabia who longs to Continue reading

Mindy McGarrah Sharp Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ethics Phillips Theological Seminary What do you know to be true now that you used to think was false? What do you know to be false now that you used to think was true? What is something you’ve always thought true Continue reading

SherAli Tareen Assistant Professor Franklin & Marshall College This is the third and penultimate blog in a series of posts in which I have sought to meditate on the question of how one might present theoretical/conceptual arguments to students in an introductory course on Islam in a manner that does Continue reading

Teresa Delgado Director, Peace and Justice Studies Associate Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department Iona College Earlier this semester, a number of faculty on our campus organized a “teach-in” to address growing concerns over the Trump administration’s recent executive orders and presidential leadership. Entitled, “Freedom from Fear: American Democracy in.. Continue reading

Dean J. Johnson Director Peace & Conflict Studies Assistant Professor of Philosophy West Chester University Every time I walk into a classroom or workshop for the first time, I hear the voices of elders in the long, Black-led struggle for justice pressing the questions: “How are you going to Continue reading

Stephen G. Ray, Jr. Neal A. and Ila F. Fisher Professor of Theology Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary In my last blog, I reflected on my regret about the way that my classroom had become politicized in an election season in ways that I came to regret. Unexpectedly, I find myself once Continue reading

Meena Sharify-Funk Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University I was scheduled to write a blog post on teaching about controversial issues and how they are shaping contemporary Muslim identities in North America. Guessing, however, that many readers may be fatigued from the barrage of unfavorable events – from the U.S. travel. Continue reading