Second, we can cultivate practices of faculty “life together,” as Bonhoeffer put it. Like the stonemasons we encountered in Wenger’s story in chapter 5, we Christian teachers sometimes have to be reminded, amid the workaday pressures of class prep and grading, that we are building cathedrals.

However the Lord has gifted you, whatever tools you have at your disposal, steward them toward the impression of awe, the air of redemption, a foretaste of glory. Do not write in such a way as to make your name great, but because his name is. You don’t have to write explicitly Christian material for this to be true. You simply have to write as an e