iTeach and iLearn

This morning I led singing at our local Christian school, the one where I served on the faculty for eleven years before moving to my current...

This morning I had the chance to sit in on a conversation with a hero-of-sorts for me: Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff . I've been reading th...

I went through a really low period in my spiritual life about seven years ago, and I was tremendously cynical about almost everything faith ...

I first applied to serve as an adjunct instructor teaching science methods at Dordt College back in 2006. I remember that after my interview...

This week I had the pleasure of presenting at a conference held at Redeemer University College. It was the biennial conference of the Intern...

Tonight we had a Maundy Thursday service. We spent time in song, in the Word, in prayer. We remembered the Last Supper. We came to the table...

(Note: I wrote this post for CACE .  Please visit to view the original piece and check out the other great stuff there! You can also follow...

Hanging on my bulletin board, directly above my desk so it is staring me in the face, I have this sheet of paper tacked up: It is the c...

By Lucas Cranach [Public domain] via  Wikimedia Commons Today is October 31st. In Protestant circles, it's a big day: Reformat...

I ran into a former student last night. He was in my 7th grade homeroom 12 years ago. Sharp kid: smart, hard-working, great sense of humor; ...

I have a pet peeve about Jeremiah 29:11 being used as a celebratory text at graduation ceremonies. Here it is, from the NIV: "For I ...

I. 18 years ago I was a freshman in college and my roommate introduced me to a little-known Canadian band called Hokus Pick Manouver. Thes...

I'm a guest blogger last month and this month at Christian Schools International's Nurturing Faith  blog . Always great stuff ther...

In case you are running stuck with things for your middle schooler (or high schooler, or yourself...) to do over Christmas Break, let me enc...

Last school year I was privileged to be part of a small group of teachers at my school who met together monthly to read and discuss things t...

I'm thinking a lot lately about how we teach science in Christian schools. I teach a Science Methods course ("how do we teach sci...

I spent a couple days last week at a convention with several hundred Christian teachers. It was, as these things tend to be, a great time of...

I'm struggling a little bit to reconcile not teaching in a K-8 setting this year. That has been such a large part of my identity fo...