Teaching and Christian Imagination Book Discussion

Susan Felch will be leading a discussion on her book (with David Smith), Teaching and Christian Imagination. This book has been the focus of the Faculty Book Club in the fall semester and beautifully compares the practice of Christian Education with the pilgrim journey, pleasure gardening, and meaningful building construction

“Deir Sister”: The Letters of John Knox to Anne Vaughan Lok

Anne Vaughan Lok was a prominent supporter of the protestant cause and an active participant in the early reformed communities of the mid-sixteenth century. Although recent scholarship on Anne Lok seems to indicate that she may have felt hindered by her own gender and overly dependent on male reformers, a close study of the epistolary exchange between Lok and John Knox reveals the presence of a strong woman, whom Knox often consulted, whom he persistently invited to Geneva, and whom he often considered as an equal