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Releasing the Helm: Letting Go of “Excellence in All Things” (Scholar’s Compass)

November 20, 2014 by Heather Walker Peterson 3 Comments

“How do you do it?” I asked a friend. We’re sitting at an afternoon tea honoring adjuncts. My paper plate is stacked with small squares of cheese and a meager number of strawberries because the unborn baby squeezed underneath my swollen abdomen demands that I eat or feel sick. Fat or protein seems to work the best.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Psalms, Releasing the Helm, Scholar's Compass

Releasing the Helm: Loosening My Grip on My Students’ Learning (Scholar’s Compass)

November 18, 2014 by Heather Walker Peterson No Comments

Sitting at their tables, my students listened to me with red-rimmed eyes or drooping heads. Many had half empty coffee cups near them. They were tired. Painfully tired.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Love Your Campus, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Love Your Campus, Releasing the Helm, Scholar's Compass, The Four Loves

Releasing the Helm: Letting Theory Critique My Faith (Scholar’s Compass)

November 16, 2014 by Heather Walker Peterson No Comments

We must listen with all our might, with all our will to discern, laying aside our very human desire to be right with a prayer that we may be faithful. – Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009 Reflection The air conditioner’s white noise makes my meeting with […]

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