Course Development Grant Competition for Syllabi on “Neuroscience and the Soul” Biola University’s Center for Christian Thought, with the help of a generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation, invites applications for a course-development grant on its focal theme for the 2012-2013 year, Neuroscience and the Soul. The program will provide two awards to faculty […]
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We are searching for video recordings of James Fowler lecturing on Faith Development theory, for use in a Psychologists of Religion project. If you have or know of such recordings please contact Ted Brelsford (theodore [dot] brelsford [at] emory [dot] edu).
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We regret to announce that Joanne Chafe, past president of REA (1985-89), passed away suddenly in Ottawa last weekend at the age of 60. She was Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ontario. Joanne worked for 37 years in the National Office of Religious Education of the Canadian Conference of
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Time is short! But here are 2 new grant announcements that suggest exciting possibilities for colleagues with interest in these areas: 1. From the Wabash Center, “Expanding Ministry Formation into New Pedagogical Contexts.” Grants of up to $20,000 for projects that explore the process of teaching ministry formation outside the classroom: in local contexts, in
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Ryan Gardner has shared the powerpoint from his workshop at the 2011 REA Annual Meeting in Toronto, “Improving Teacher Reflection in the Religious Education Classroom.” Find it listed in the 2011 Proceedings.
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Next summer, from July 16 to August 3, the Interfaith Center of New York will hold, in conjunction with Union Theological Seminary, a three-week institute for secondary school teachers entitled, “Religious Worlds of New York: Teaching the Everyday Life of American Religious Diversity.” The institute will have two central goals: It will offer participants an
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We express our sympathy to Barney Kathan, REA archivist for many years, whose son Robert Boardman Kathan died of kidney failure on October 1. He was 50. Robert and his family lived in Cohoes, NY, where Robert worked for Stewart Stores. Contributions in memory of Robert Kathan can be sent to the National Kidney Foundation,
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Many scholars of religious education have been wrestling with the influence of the ascendance of social media on religion and faith communities. How do mediated publics challenge religious assumptions about community, incarnation, congregation, and the sacraments? How do new types of publicness reconfigure identity and race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and/or nationality? CALL FOR PAPERS: Special
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If you are planning to attend the AAR/SBL meeting in San Francisco, don’t forget to greet our friends at the events hosted by the Wabash Center. More information here. The Wabash Center has graciously offered again to fund the breakfast for doctoral students at our own annual meeting.
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It is with great sadness that I share news of the death of Brady Schutt, husband of Karen-Marie Yust, our long-time colleague who taught at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis and now teaches at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA. A Celebration of Brady’s Life was held June 4. Please support Karen-Marie and their three
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