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Pickwick, 2024

Framed within the lens of Robert Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership model,Truth and Reconciliation examines and explores trends through global historical accounts and examples of diplomatic leadership surrounding the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions of South Africa and Canada, as a guide to approach America’s divided identity and racial tensions. It is the hope that this manuscript will offer insights as well as a theological lens for reflection to approach a nonviolent narrative-based option of seeking truth and the first steps toward reconciliation, beyond cyclic ideologies. 

“This book offers a novel approach to discuss, explore, and create first steps to address deep-seated injustices in America.”  

—Jerry Abramson, former director, White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (2014–17)

"This book is rich in its analysis of history and Scripture and perceptive in its diagnosis of contemporary challenges. Truth and Reconciliation is an exciting new resource for anyone looking to understand our present challenges and to make progress toward a better future." 

- David Golemboski, associate professor of government and international affairs, Augustana University

Information Age, 2023

Co-editor: Adam Zoeller

In response to the problems and possibilities associated with teaching through film, we are developing a collection of practical, classroom-ready lesson ideas that might bridge gaps between theory and practice and assist teachers endeavoring to make effective use of film  in their classrooms. We believe that film can serve as a powerful tool in the social studies classroom and, where appropriately utilized, foster critical thinking and civic mindedness. The NCSS College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) framework, represents a renewed and formalized  emphasis on the perennial social studies goals of deep thinking, reading  and writing. Our hope is that this edited book might play a small role in the larger project of supporting practitioners, specifically 6-12 teachers of social studies and world religion content, by offering a  collection of classroom-ready tools based on the Hollywood or History? strategy and designed to foster inquiry through the careful use of selected motion pictures and television productions.

Chapters include lessons pertaining to the roots, rituals, symbols, beliefs, and controversial or significant people or events related to: The Abrahamic Religions, Eastern Religions/Philosophies, Indigenous Religions/Spirituality

Wipf & Stock, 2020

Foreword by: Thomas del Prete

(2021) First Place Book Award: Pastoral Ministry – Youth & Young Adult, Catholic Media Association

Through scholarship and practice this book explores how the life and writings of Thomas Merton may serve as a guide and bridge for ministers of adolescents, and will offer some practical suggestions for minsters,  educators, and parents on topics affecting contemporary adolescents, through the lens of Thomas Merton's life and writings.

"Dr. Malewitz includes Merton’s letters and communication with adolescents, which illustrate Merton’s ability to listen, enter into dialogue, and communicate an understanding of the true self always seeking God. This is a must-read for the minister who seeks to form well the adolescents entrusted to his or her care.” 

- Joseph E. Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville

"Writing from many years of hands-on experience in the classroom, along with his profound reading of Merton, Thomas Malewitz provides an excellent roadmap for Christian educators to incorporate, indeed immerse, their adolescent curricula in the timeless and prescient wisdom of Thomas Merton.”   

- Paul M. Pearson, Director, Thomas Merton Center