Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality'

Chad Bauman, Butler University
Davina Lopez
Gene Gallagher

Abstract

In her response, Nadine Pence helpfully turns the conversation towards actual practices in teaching and the array of practical decisions that have to be made in the classroom and on campuses when it comes to addressing "Big Questions" and students' aspirations and interior lives. Several dimensions of her argument are worth amplification.