Thinking Teaching: Strategies, Stories and Insight to Improve Teaching

Teaching theology and religion is both intellectually rigorous and deeply human work—shaped over time by experimentation, challenge, and discovery. This panel celebrates the release of Thinking Teaching: Stories, Insights, and Strategies to Ignite Reflection, Discussion, and Imagination by Nancy Lynne Westfield. Drawing on decades in the classroom, the book invites educators to pause and reconsider the habits, assumptions, and possibilities that shape their teaching. Join a distinguished group of teacher-scholars as they reflect on enduring questions of vocation, creativity, and growth. Together, they will explore how educators sustain imagination, adapt to changing contexts, and continue learning across a lifetime of teaching. Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the book and learn about a new Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion grant opportunity to support faculty conversations in their own institutions.