About the Center for Teaching and the Good Life
The mission of the Center for Teaching and the Good Life at Trinity Christian College is to deepen our institutional capacity to help students discover and articulate the joy of their vocation in ways that include and extend beyond career and work. To accomplish this mission, the Center’s purpose is to resource the imaginations of faculty and staff as we envision and live into our callings as Christian scholar-teachers.
Guiding Questions:
- What does it mean to be human?
- How can we, the faculty and staff of Trinity Christian College, 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?
- How can Trinity’s vision of vocation—of our full humanity—be accessible to all human beings?
Primary Purposes:
- support and provides resources for faculty and staff to deepen, broaden, and apply their own understanding, imagination, and realization of their vocation as a Christian scholar-teacher
- support and provides resources for faculty and staff in the areas of pedagogy, scholarship, and service
- support and engender conversations around our shared vocation at Trinity
- serve as a central resource for coordinating and managing points of contact for faculty and staff around themes of vocation, with an emphasis on the areas of pedagogy, scholarship, and service
Mark Peters, Director
Mark Peters, Ph.D., is professor of music and director of the Center for Teaching and the Good Life at Trinity Christian College. He teaches courses on music and the arts in relation to individuals, societies, and cultures, seeking to instill in students the perspective that practices of creating and of engaging human creativity are fundamental aspects of our shared humanity.
Peters is the course director for Thinking and Writing courses in Trinity’s Foundations curriculum and teaches two Thinking and Writing courses: Imagination and Community and Longing for a Good Home. In Thinking and Writing courses, Trinity students develop their self-awareness, their powers of discernment, and their ability to think and write about the question, “What is the good life?”
Learn more about Peters’ scholarly work here.
Marva Bruno, Associate Director
Marva Emeria Bruno is Interim Assistant Dean of Students and associate director of the Center for Teaching and the Good Life at Trinity Christian College.
Marva has served the Trinity community for four years. She found her call working in higher education while serving as a Graduate Assistant Residence Director to the women’s residence hall at Trinity International University. Prior to her time here, she worked at The Rocket Center/Space Camp in Huntsville, AL, as well as at the U.S. Soccer Federation in Chicago, IL.
Marva and her husband Angel Bruno recently welcomed their first child, Angel Bruno III. They enjoy spending most of their free time with family, traveling to beaches, fishing, and finding new adventures within a five-hour radius of the Chicagoland area.