The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching
Dialogue on Teaching, hosted by Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD, is the podcast of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Amplifying the Wabash Center’s mission, the podcast focuses upon issues of teaching and learning in theology and religion within colleges, universities and seminaries. The podcast series features dialogues with faculty teaching in a wide range of institutional contexts. The conversations will illumine the teaching life.
Host: Nancy Lynne Westfield, PhD
Producer: Rachel Mills
Sound Engineer: Paul O. Myhre, PhD & Paul Utterback
Podcast music by Dr. Paul O. Myhre, PhD
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 320
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Unchanged Demographics of Faculty
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Data show that the kinds of persons we bring into doctoral programs and hire onto faculty remain relatively unchange…
Studying the Institutional Ecology: Roger S. Nam
Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology.
When at the dawn of your career, how do you learn the institut…
Bible in the Public Square: Steed Davidson
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.
What does it mean to examen the influences of the bible upon contemporary society? In what ways can classrooms encou…
Coping with Professional Grief: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study o…
Misperceptions About Administration - Roger S. Nam
Roger S. Nam is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Emory University Candler School of Theology.
What makes for mediocre, good, and exceptional administrators?…
Administration as Vocation: Steed Davidson
Dr. Steed Davidson is the Executive Director of the Society of Biblical Literature.
In what ways do faculty positions prepare you for administrative jobs? What kind of professional formation is needed…
Transitions in Life & Mental Health: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study o…
Artificial Intelligence, Theology and Teaching: Philip Butler
Philip Butler is Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Post-Human Artificial Intelligence Systems at Iliff School of Theology.
What if teaching had the audacity to pose questions which disrupts r…
Understanding Neurodivergence & Accommodations: Phillis Sheppard
Phillis Sheppard is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, Culture and Womanist Thought, and Executive Director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study o…
What Counts as Teacher Failure?: Angela Parker
Angela Parker, PhD is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek with Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.
Adult students sometimes feel confronted or disrespected when their personal fa…
Questioning to Make Connections: Richelle White
Richelle White, PhD is Professor of Youth Ministry and Director of Field Practicum and Internships and Kuyper College.
Questioning as a tool of teaching is a skill to be developed and honed. Facilita…
Taking Scholarship to the Public: Angela Parker
Angela Parker, PhD is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek with Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.
People in the public are curious about, and hungry for, conversations on bible …
Justice Agendas in Theological Education: Sarah F. Farmer
Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center.
What happens when scholarship is the work of passion and social change? What happens when learning mobilizes persons for liberation? What if t…
Teaching and Restorative Hope: Sarah Farmer
Sarah Farmer is Associate Director of the Wabash Center.
A conversation on Dr. Farmer's latest book pointing toward the ways hope is life giving. Hope is not sanitized - not a luxury. Hope is about p…
Classroom Dynamics: Emily O. Gravett
Emily O. Gravett is the Assistant Director of the Teaching Area in the Center for Faculty Innovation and Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University.
The power dynamics of classrooms …
Embracing Diverse Learners and Complex Classrooms: Aizaiah G. Yong
Rev. Dr. Aizaiah G. Yong is Assistant Professor of Spirituality at Claremont School of Theology.
What does it take to create a classroom experience where the relational ethos among diverse learners …
Teaching, Spirit & Prisons: Luke Powery
The Rev. Dr. Luke Powery is Dean of Duke University Chapel and Professor of Homiletics and African and African American Studies at Duke Divinity School.
In this conversation, hear stories of what hap…
Dreaming - Returning to Ancient Pedagogies - Kenneth Ngwa
Dr. Kenneth Ngwa is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Religion and Global Health Forum at Drew University Theological School.
Dreams are states of the awake and the asleep. Dreaming is a pedag…
The End of Theological Education: Ted A. Smith
Dr. Ted A. Smith is Associate Dean of Faculty and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Divinity.
What could happen if several scholars, writing in community, grappled with the shifting of theologic…
Writing Better: Sophfronia Scott
Sophfronia Scott is Director of the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Alma College in Alma, MI and author a numerous books including Wild Beautiful and Free and The Seeker and the Monk.
Teac…