David I. Smith

This morning a little space opened up in my schedule, and I have been re-reading…

I was recently provoked to fresh reflection on two very familiar passages as I prepared…

The way we pray says quite a lot about us. Our prayers and the way…

This essay was published in 2012 in the book Practically Human: College Professors Speak from…

This post is a slightly edited version of a recent editorial published in the International…

Some years ago, I was sitting in my campus office minding my own business when…

When the Moravian bishop and education reformer John Amos Comenius died in 1670, he was…

As a journal editor, I intermittently see articles submitted that choose as their rhetorical opening…

By Crystal Bruxvoort, Davi Chang Ribeiro Lin, Olga Nakato Mugerwa, and David I. Smith Early…

This is the third in a series of reflections on student vocation. I began in…

In February I posted a piece in which I wondered how we think about our…

Some time ago, I noticed a poster on a departmental noticeboard at my university bearing…

I ended last year with some reflections on how to end a semester. Here I…

This semester seems to be ending in stages. We planned to send students home at…

November 15 marks an important anniversary that will pass unnoticed for most, at least in…

Two comments about courses of study separated by more than 80 years have me thinking…

Snails, it turns out, have things to teach us, even for folk with advanced degrees.…