Welcome to the Center for Excellence in Christian Education, a nexus of creativity and innovation in educational leadership, research, and practice.

About

Whether we are pastors, educators, congregational leaders, commissioned ruling elders, or scholars, it is our collective voices, experiences, wisdom, and creativity that can move us through the best of what was, and into the faithfulness of what will be.

Practices

Our center offers pedagogical strategies for teaching in diverse contexts of ministry while promoting and encouraging educators, pastors, congregational, and community leaders to explore, deepen, and retool their gifts for ministry.

Leadership

Sustaining and equipping all those who educate, whatever their level of theological education or vocational experience.

Research

Creating space and opportunities for faculty and practitioners to engage in critical conversations that develop innovative, effective, and imaginative theories, models, and methods.

Dr. John Hutton is a professor, a pediatrician, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a renowned researcher in children’s brain development. With his team, Dr. Hutton published the first studies in the world using MRI to quantify relationships between home reading and digital media environments on brain structure and function in preschool-age children. He is a leading voice in the effects of screen time on brain development in children and the findings from his research his widely published. He is also the author of a series of children’s books that promote importance of a solid foundation in language, human connection and creative play.

Join in the conversation virtually the last Thursday of the each month at 12 noon EDT. These interactive forums will be topical, provide insights, and space for dialogue. Each Collaborative Conversation will be recorded and made available.