Greenflame

Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand

Category: Teaching/Education

  • COVID Comics

    Over the past few months I’ve started to collect comics and graphic novels that document the experience of COVID-19 in various communities. Most of these books are anthologies – collections drawing together vignettes of life from the perspective of people from all walks of life. There is something about how COVID-19 has permeated the everydayness…

  • Digital Writing – Part 2

    A while back I wrote about some analogue and digital tools for writing (Digital writing – Part 1). Today, I’m going to look at creating a platform for writing using some of those and other tools. It all starts with an oldish (2014) laptop that is no longer being used.

  • Comics, Social Change, and the Public Good

    A few years back I started thinking about the relationship between popular culture and contextual and public theologies. Firstly, how popular culture might serve as a site for doing contextual theology and, secondly, how popular culture might provide avenue for for public theological engagement. My initial thinking in this area can be found in the…

  • Digital writing – Part 1

    Writing is not natural for me. School tasks such as writing about your holidays or knocking out different kinds of essays were like pulling teeth; each word dragged kicking and screaming onto the page. Partly, that was because I never felt happy with the quality of my handwriting, but mostly because I like thinking about…

  • Social Mediators at #AARSBL19

    If you’re at AAB/SBL and are part of blogging or social media communities around religion and other things etc. then James McGrath has proposed catching up at a couple of the receptions. I’m planning to get to at least one of these. Should be fun. Details at the link below. Social Mediators at #AARSBL19 https://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2019/11/social-mediators-at-aarsbl19.html…

  • Writing for journals

    Laura Moss writes a really helpful article on writing articles for academic journals and what things you can do to improve the overall experience for yourself, the editor(s), and the peer-reviewers. My advice here is aimed at scholars of all levels and not just emerging ones. We all need to work on finding optimal ways…

  • Holy Gospels, Batman!

    Recently my family gave me the 2018 DC Comics animated film, Batman Ninja. This takes the familiar Batman heroes and villains and transports them into an anime-style Japanese Batman story directed by Junpei Mizusaki. This is not the first time DC have done something like this with the Batman: Gotham Knight collection of short anime-style…

  • Pitching a book proposal

    James McGrath (ReligionProf) linked (via Facebook) through to this helpful guide to pitching a book to editors at a conference. Not just for Classical Studies. Blog: A Guide to Pitching Your Book at a Conference | Society for Classical Studies Some other sites with similar, helpful advice include: How To Pitch Your Book to an Editor at…

  • Teaching Spirituality and Wellbeing

    During my years of theology lecturing I’ve had the opportunity to teach a number of courses in the area of Christian spirituality, as well as do some research connected to that. (Back in the day as a BD student I did the Spiritual Formation Integrated Fieldwork (IFE) option in my final year, rather than the…

  • Almost 10 years today I was about to start work post-PhD at the University of Auckland as a new Lecturer in Practical Theology in the School of Theology. At that point, I’d done quite a bit of adjunct lecturing and some eLearning consulting, but hadn’t yet supervised any students for postgraduate research projects. My expectation…