David I. Smith
Biography
David I. Smith wrote Learning from the Stranger and On Christian Teaching, and co-wrote The Gift of the Stranger with Barbara Carvill.
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Christian Living
“In a world enamored of the literal and the quantifiable as royal avenues to truth, we need reminders that the way we feed and direct our imagination is crucial to who we become. This valuable volume invites us to pause from stuffing mental fast food into the hungry spaces in our souls and feast instead on gourmet fare from the Christian past. Whether you are drawn more by the dragons, the cathedrals, or the lady virtues, there is food for the Christian imagination here to linger over and savor.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“John Shortt is a humble, thoughtful, and expert educator who has thought long and hard about the calling of the Christian in the classroom. He offers us here an accessible, warm account of how Scripture can bring life to the work of the present-day teacher. Anyone seeking to teach more wisely and faithfully will find welcome food for thought and a winsome guide in these pages.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“This book stays refreshingly close to the ground, offering a winsome walking tour through the classrooms of master teachers. It presents the fruit of thoughtful educators investigating their own craft and the commitments that sustain it. If you need some inspiration combined with practical wisdom for your own teaching, there is much to be gleaned in these pages.”
Cultivating Learning Communities of Belonging
Discipleship & Christian Education
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Theology
“This book eloquently joins the other voices calling us to soul-forming kinds of reading that can resist our descent into superficiality and hostility. Importantly, it goes beyond them in describing not just the texts we should read or the virtues we should seek but the actual practices that might get us there. All those who use text to teach others should read it. Anyone else who cares about reading and spiritual growth should join them.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“What if Christian teachers, administrators, and parents did not have to juggle scattershot research findings and inspiring but abstract exhortations and statements of vision? This book helpfully weaves together research and theological vision, knowledge and purpose, truth and effectiveness in the service of flourishing school communities. Read it to find help in the vital task of building genuinely purposeful Christian learning.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“In a world that wants to turn education into bureaucratic data management, information cramming, or ideological rectitude, we need every resource we can get that reminds us that at the heart of education lies the pursuit of the spiritual, ethical, intellectual, relational flourishing of students, teachers, and communities. This is that kind of resource, one that starts from questions about what is good rather than questions about who is right and addresses them with valuable research. Read it for fresh insight into how schools might flourish.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“[This book] is genuinely written for the average beginning college student, rather than leaning to the highly academic and philosophically inclined. The prose is lively, readable, and very accessible, and is punctuated by anecdotes and comments from students. . . . [The book] point[s] students in the direction of connecting their faith and their learning without prescribing many of the intellectual outcomes. . . . The task of being a Christian scholar is not presented solely in terms of developing Christian concepts and positions, but includes a focus on practices that span the devotional and the educational.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Metaphors have long been recognized as playing a key role in the ways we approach teaching and learning. The authors contributing to this book offer a thought-provoking, faith-sensitive, and a refreshingly personal guide to this important area of reflection.”
Theology
“This valuable collection illuminates Kuyper’s approach to educational policy and practice founded on the conviction that differences in basic beliefs are ineradicable and must be honored in the context of schooling. It allows us a glimpse into the particular commitments and struggles that helped forge Reformed thinking about schooling in its Kuyperian version, and in doing so provides helpful perspective as we consider present-day impasses.”
Pedagogy and Education for Life
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Amid a wider renewal of interest in the formational dimensions of faith-informed education, Cairney brings long experience and a welcome focus on pedagogy as the whole way of life of a classroom.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Brian Pickerd is a creative and committed teacher and a thoughtful Christian. In this engaging book he traces the threads that connect the two in a way that will help teachers live and teach wholly.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Few are as well positioned to write of stewarding a living tradition of Catholic education as John Sullivan. Sullivan brings a lifetime of reflection to bear on concrete questions of how educational practice can be a contemporary participation in the gospel and engagement with a Christian conversation stretching back across the centuries. He ranges across matters of pedagogy, leadership, curriculum, learning, vocation, and more, bringing careful Christian engagement to each. There is much here worth pondering and working into our practices.”
Story, Ritual, Prophecy, Wisdom
Discipleship & Christian Education
“This book asks us to think simultaneously about what the Bible is, how it shapes us, and how we might teach it in a way that is responsive to its own dynamics. By refusing to separate the subject matter and the mode of instruction, the authors invite us to imagine afresh how the Bible might inhabit our teaching in ways that lead to wisdom.”
Christian Living
“The idea that we are made in God's image is not new, but it is too easily reduced to a background cliché. This engaging book invites you to the realization that by embracing your identity as God's image bearer, you are not just recognizing your profound worth and that of those around you. You are joining a story deep and wide enough to bring empowering meaning to your work, your play, your values, your very self.”
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