by Stuart Blythe | Oct 21, 2019 | Opinion
I have attended a number of workshops in recent weeks that focused on learning and teaching in higher education (not what they were called but what they were). Since the time I first got a chance to do a post-graduate certificate in teaching and learning at the...
by Stuart Blythe | Aug 13, 2019 | Opinion
Should street preachers be arrested? That is the topic of a recent article by John Stackhouse, who serves as Samuel J. Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Stackhouse avoids rightly discussing the specific...
by Stuart Blythe | May 15, 2018 | Opinion
A colleague noted on his Facebook page that he had seen little reference to World Earth Day (April 22). There could be numerous reasons for this. One of them is what ethicist Willis Jenkins calls “moral incompetence.” This is no insult, but the recognition...
by Stuart Blythe | Apr 27, 2018 | Opinion
We should add to the familiar question, “Who is my neighbor?” the less familiar inquiry, “Who is my neighborhood?” On the final night of a course on worship I’ve been teaching recently, we explored the extent to which our worship services...
by Stuart Blythe | Jan 8, 2018 | Opinion
There are a whole range of special foci outside the big two of Christmas and Easter that can be included as part of regular “worship events.” Epiphany (Jan. 6), Mothering Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Advent), Remembrance Day (Nov. 11), Baptist World...
