Formative practices of the theological teacher's vocation. The formation of the scholar / W. Clark Gilpin -- Writing as a spritual discipline / Stephanie Paulsell -- Reading as a spiritual discipline / Paul J. Griffiths -- Contemplation in the midst of chaos : contesting the maceration of the theological teacher / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore -- My vocational kinship with the United States' first female theologian / Rosemary Skinner Keller -- Theological teachers in their classrooms. Teaching as conversation / Susan M. Simonaitis -- Teaching as a ministry of hope / Paul J. Wadell -- Teaching as cultivating wisdom for a complex world / Lois Malcolm -- Teaching and learning as ceaseless prayer / Michael Battle -- Theological teachers in their schools. "Yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it" : on stability in the academic life / Claire Mathews McGinnis -- Vocation in the outback / Frederick W. Norris -- Negotiating the tensions of vocation / L. Gregory Jones -- The formation of vocation : institutional and individual / Leanne Van Dyke -- Attending to the collective vocation / Gordon T. Smith.