David I. Smith

In the preface to her recent book on theological education, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier describes some of…

One morning in July I sat with some fellow faculty at the tail end of…

I’ve been thinking about burdens again. Often my own, I must confess, but also the…

This piece is a slightly adapted version of a recent editorial written for the International…

In one of Grammarly’s ubiquitous advertisements, a hapless writer uses the popular AI-based editing software…

During focus group research for the book Digital Life Together, two secondary school students offered…

I have an image pinned to the noticeboard by my desk that resulted from a…

While browsing through some past Faith Animating Learning blog articles, I came across a helpful…

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…