I am currently a former SLU grad undertaking her PhD in Rhetoric at Purdue University. I am also in the process of transitioning out of academia and pursuing a job more filled with light and…
For friends in Spirituality of Service & Social Justice classes I want us to be freer I don’t want us to be in thrall to guilt I want us to let our light shine Why…
March 29, 2013 Dear Dr. C, i just had a dream about you and your class last night. I saw that we studied abou Love. You wrote a lot of questions about love on the…
Erin recently started teaching as an adjunct professor at SLU, and gave me permission to share this. Teaching has been a very humbling experience. There have been many times I have felt insecure about…
After recent correspondence with Robert MacArthur, I went back to see the books we read when he took Social Justice with me in the fall of 2005. I must say–I am glad I assigned these! Riane…
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The thing is to get under the students’ skin and arouse enough enthusiasm that they get under their own skin. This means allowing yourself to be yourself in class. My own best teachers were WC…
And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being in some kind of meaningless game in which the students were exquisite at playing the role of students and…
1. In our Intercultural Studies class today Mariah, Ta’mare, and Rachel read the following stanzas Of “Our True Heritage” by Thích Nhất Hạnh: The cosmos is filled with precious gems. I want to offer a…
In the School of Revolutionary Mindfulness When students arrive early to class No I-Phones are anywhere to be seen In the minutes before class begins Students and teacher are sitting Breathing calmly and smiling