Oct 26, Dallas Gingles, Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Perkins School of Theology at SMU Dallas, for a commentary about how George W. Bush exhibited ‘civic virtue’ during a visit to his theology class. Published in the Austin American-Statesman under the heading: In an SMU classroom, George W. Bush was a lesson on civic virtue: https://tinyurl.com/ftrp6b23
I had the rare honor in September of welcoming a former president of the United States into my classroom. President George W. Bush surprised the students in my seminar, “Presidential Rhetoric and American Political Theology,” at Southern Methodist University, by arriving five minutes into the class and staying for a full hour to take questions from every student in the room.
The 43rd president periodically makes these visits to engage with students in SMU classrooms – one of the great perks that comes with the location of the George W. Bush Presidential Center on our campus. On this visit, as always, President Bush was thoughtful, honest, reflective and wise. But more than anything he was an exemplar of civic virtue.
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