Learn how to link your faith to your teaching and scholarship – wherever you are in the world.
If you are Christian and work in higher education, how can you learn to responsibly ground your thought and practice in your faith? Reflecting Faith offers short, accessible, high quality online courses developed by experienced Christian scholars and available worldwide at low cost.
All who desire to understand how faith can inform the work of higher education.
Explore how Christian theological commitments can inform and inspire your teaching, research, and service.
Reflecting Faith can enhance your own vision, as well as support your institution’s faculty development needs.
Are you preparing for a career in higher education? Use Reflecting Faith to deepen the resources you bring to your vocation as a Christian scholar.
Each course takes either a theological theme or a specific faculty responsibility as a focus for exploring the relationship between Christian faith and the work of higher education. In each course you will engage with Scripture, insights from the Christian tradition, and current scholarship, and examples of the work of current faculty at other institutions.
Our online courses are available for self-paced use for an affordable price. Click View All Courses below to begin your course. Learning and interaction with others are asynchronous, so time zone is not a barrier. During each course you will engage in 8 – 10 hours of learning, which you can plan around your own schedule. We can also arrange courses for cohorts from specific institutions based around a schedule of your choosing. Contact us to discuss further.
Courses are offered at a low cost, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. We also offer discounts to groups from the same institution.
All courses are available in self-paced format – just click the Register button. We can also arrange courses for cohorts from your institution – contact us! Here are some examples of current course topics – click through to our courses page to see the full range of courses and to learn more about each course.
Deeply embedded in the Christian understanding of reality is a sense that something is seriously wrong with the good world that God created. Sin is the key label that the Christian tradition has used to identify the core and cause of what is wrong.
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A range of scholars have explored the biblical understanding of “shalom,” a holistic state of wellbeing in which relationships are restored, injustice is overcome, and wholeness is experienced. This course focuses on the biblical concept of shalom and how it relates to higher education.
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For Christians, the fundamental distinction in being is between Creator (the triune God) and creation (everything else). This course focuses on clarifying the core theological notion of the world as creation and considering the light it sheds upon the work of higher education.
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The biblical theme of hospitality has played a significant role in recent theological writing and as a lens for thinking about a range of topics, including civic and religious diversity, education, intercultural learning, and disability. This course focuses on how the biblical concept of hospitality can connect faith and learning in higher education.
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A Christian framework for higher education affects not just the ideas we teach, but how we teach and learn. How might Christian commitment affect pedagogy? Can we make such a connection without lapsing into one-size-fits-all prescription? This course explores how faith can inform pedagogy.
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The idea and practice of community intersects in complex ways with our work in higher education, both in the classroom and in scholarship across the range of academic disciplines. This course will explore what we might mean by Christian community and just a few of the possible connections to higher education.
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Early in Scripture we encounter an astounding statement about humanity—that the human race is made in the “image of God.” This course will explore some implications of this important teaching across a range of disciplines and tasks in academic life.
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The Bible carries authority for Christian educators, but it is not a collection of handy verses related to all disciplines of the modern university. How, then, does it speak to our work?
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Invest in your professional development in the new year by registering for a January 2024 faculty development course that delves into the topic of sin and its implications for higher education.
Read MoreThis course invites reflection on how Christian faith commitments could inform choices in online teaching contexts.
Read MoreThe first of two new courses is now available for self-directed use. This course explores Christian understandings of sin in relation to academic work.
Read MoreIn partnership with Calvin University’s Global Campus, the de Vries Institute is happy to announce that we are now issuing certifications to participants in Reflecting Faith courses upon their complet
Read MoreAll Reflecting Faith courses are now available for individuals to register and begin work on the course immediately. Another model is institutional cohorts of faculty.
Read MoreTwo of the newest Reflecting Faith courses will be offered from June 27 to July 15, 2022. Each course will take an online cohort of participants through a study of the biblical roots, contemporary pe
Read MoreWe are currently developing four brand new Reflecting Faith courses. Our courses on Humanity in God’s Image, Community and Learning, Faith and Online Pedagogy, and Sin are in the final stages of devel
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