Faith-Based Service-Learning: Back to the Future‪.‬

Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia DeVries Beversluis (Eds.) Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 In the fall of 1959, my Old Testament professor, Roger Carstenson, looked at a group of social activists at faith-based Phillips University in Oklahoma and said, "You talk a lot about walking the second mile, but don't really understand much about walking the 'first mile.'" In 2003, he might have told us to "go get a clue" to understand what service and privilege were really all about. He arranged for us to shave and tend to basic needs of the elderly poor who were "warehoused" at the County Home. As if that were not enough of a challenge, he insisted that we gather each Thursday morning for Bible study and reflect on just what it means to be a servant, or to walk the second mile as Jesus insisted.