« Back to Education
Higher education
Recently published
A campus ministry opens a pay-as-you-can deli just as the pandemic hits
When the students at the Baptist Student Ministry in the Rio Grande Valley opened a deli near campus, they knew it was innovative. What they didn’t know was that their restaurant would become a vital source of meals for people in need.
Link to author Elizabeth Le'anani Coffee
By
Elizabeth Le'anani Coffee
Community engagement facilitator, H.E. Butt Foundation
Dominique A. Robinson: How I reach college students as a womanist millennial preacher
The inaugural dean of chapel at Wiley College blends traditional faith practices with a fresh approach in order to inspire and teach undergraduates at the HBCU.
Christian parents must allow their children the freedom to develop their own identities
A parent’s desire to guarantee a child’s success prevents the child’s own development -- and is not the way God parents us, says a theologian and mother.
Link to author Grace Ji-Sun Kim
By
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Professor, Earlham School of Religion
It's not the church's job to decide who belongs
When churches hold onto anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs, there are real people whose sacred stories and journeys are being forgotten, writes a college chaplain and author.
Link to author Arionne Yvette Williams
By
Arionne Yvette Williams
Associate Chaplain, University of Indianapolis
Matt Croasmun: It's time to ask more from theologians
Theology must return to answering the big questions of flourishing and the meaning of a good life, says a scholar and pastor.
Karen A. Longman: The world needs what women bring
Developing women leaders takes more than teaching women skills to lead like men -- it requires a new understanding of leadership that “writes women in,” says a scholar of women’s leadership in Christian higher education.
A campus ministry on the U.S.-Mexico border trains young Christians to lead
Life on the border is difficult. But the Baptist Student Ministry of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is working to help young adults who live there leverage their own strength and resilience to step out as leaders of the Valley and the nation.
By
Patton Dodd
Journalist
Neichelle Guidry: Leading the vocational journey through the lens of sisterhood
The Dean of Chapel at Spelman College talks about her vocation -- helping form Black millennial women in ministry and faith.
Conflict is healthy and can promote interfaith understanding
In an interfaith setting, resolving conflict as quickly as possible isn’t the goal. Rather, healthy conflict can be a spark that leads us to self-awareness, self-reflection and transformation, writes the director of North Carolina Central University’s Office of Spiritual Development and Dialogue.
Link to author Gloria Winston-Harris
By
Gloria Winston-Harris
Director, Office of Spiritual Development and Dialogue, NC Central University
Episode 12: Matthew Croasmun on how (and why) to ask, "What makes a life worth living?"
In the final episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks with Matthew Croasmun about the popular Yale undergraduate course that invites students to apply the best of their intellectual energy to questions of meaning, purpose, value and worth.
