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The Center for Teaching & the Good Life Exists to Resource Your Imagination

What do we mean by teaching?

Trinity’s mission to educate the whole person means that everything we do as staff and faculty is “teaching.” Staff and faculty’s formational work with students is continuous, extending beyond the classroom into places like the dining hall, athletic fields, and financial aid office.

What do we mean by teaching?

Trinity’s mission to educate the whole person means that everything we do as staff and faculty is “teaching.” Staff and faculty’s formational work with students is continuous, extending beyond the classroom into places like the dining hall, athletic fields, and financial aid office.

What do we mean by teaching?

Trinity’s mission to educate the whole person means that everything we do as staff and faculty is “teaching.” Staff and faculty’s formational work with students is continuous, extending beyond the classroom into places like the dining hall, athletic fields, and financial aid office.

What do we mean by the good life?

The good life is the active imagination of a world where all people flourish. The good life is deeply communal – one cannot attain the good life until all others have. The good life involves the whole person in response to God, meaning no part of our living or being is excluded. While we imagine the good life, we also recognize that this work needs to be grounded in reality and must identify and address real barriers to flourishing.

What do we mean by the good life?

The good life is the active imagination of a world where all people flourish. The good life is deeply communal – one cannot attain the good life until all others have. The good life involves the whole person in response to God, meaning no part of our living or being is excluded. While we imagine the good life, we also recognize that this work needs to be grounded in reality and must identify and address real barriers to flourishing.

What do we mean by the good life?

The good life is the active imagination of a world where all people flourish. The good life is deeply communal – one cannot attain the good life until all others have. The good life involves the whole person in response to God, meaning no part of our living or being is excluded. While we imagine the good life, we also recognize that this work needs to be grounded in reality and must identify and address real barriers to flourishing.

Think With Us

What does it mean to be human?
How can we ensure our vision of vocation is accessible to all human beings?
How can we fully be the particular humans God has called us to be as Christian scholar-teachers in this time and place?
How can we help each student live fully into being the particular human God has called them to be?
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A curated collection of poems – poems of love, of remembering, of the present, of awe, of hope, and of words.

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A curated collection of prayers – prayers for the Christian scholar-teacher and prayers of blessings.

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A curated collection of readings for the Christian scholar-teacher.

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