The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching

Rev. Valerie Miles-Tribble, PhD DMin is Professor of Ministerial Leadership & Practical Theology at Berkeley School of Theology. 

Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Sarah Farmer and Rachelle Green are Associate Directors for the Wabash Center. 

Pursuing one's curiosity, seeking adventure, being open to mystery and problem solving is the stuff of good teaching, even if structures of academia would disagree or discourage. Learning reminds us of our humanity. Students can be some of our best teachers. 

Rachelle R. Green is an Associate Director for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Rolf R. Nolasco is the Rueben P. Job Professor of Spiritual Formation and Pastoral Theology and Director of the Rueben P. Job Institute for Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. 

Since we are conditioned to believe that thinking is the best way of knowing, what would it mean to rethink what we consider to be knowledge? What if our students know more than we know, then how do we share our know-how? Teaching toward the cognitive, the social, the spiritual, the political, the cultural (etc.) demands a new understanding of meaning making for adult education. 

Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. 

Stephanie M. Crumpton is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Trauma Healing Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary. 

At what season in your career, if ever, did you make time for your own thoughts and curiosities? Who do we become over time and while teaching? What choices about our teaching are made easier with time? Whose permission do we need to be less productive and more creative? 

Eric C. Smith is Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions and Co-Director of the Doctor in Ministry Program at Iliff School of Theology.

Dr. Anne E. Streaty Wimberly is Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy, a youth theology program funded by the Lilly Endowment.

The relationship bonds between faculty and student can be long-lasting and mutually lifegiving. What happens when, in the season post-teaching, former students become the teacher's mentor, teacher, and guide? When reverse-mentoring provides a sense of kinship, in what ways does it mean when former students offer hospitality to their "forever" teachers? 

Kelly Campbell is Associate Dean of Information Services and Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary.