Rahming speaks at Opening Academic Chapel
The Rabun Gap community heard a fresh perspective from Dr. Melvin Rahming, Hugh M. Gloster Professor of English at Morehouse College, during Opening Academic Chapel on Wednesday.
The classroom is a spiritual place for Dr. Melvin Rahming.
Speaking before the Rabun Gap community on Wednesday, Aug. 24 for Opening Academic Chapel, the Morehouse College professor called the classroom his church -- a place of spirit-centered learning.
“Every once in awhile, something magical, something deeply spiritual -- something divine -- happens in the classroom, and it becomes my church,” Rahming said.
Rahming, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, has been teaching African American and Caribbean literature at Morehouse since 1979. He has served as the Hugh M. Gloster Professor of English and as the Chair of the English Department. Rahming is an accomplished public speaker and published poet who also serves as the co-founder and co-director of the International Conference on Caribbean Literature and is a member of the African American Multicultural Educator’s Hall of Fame.
But on Wednesday, the story was all about his students. Rahming shared how two students made major impacts on his life. He reminded Rabun Gap scholars that their effect on their teachers is often greater than they realize.
“Know that you are affecting the lives of your teachers in multifarious ways. And know that, in your own way, you are bringing them to a consciousness of their divinity. You’re bringing them into fuller contact with who and what they are, even as they are helping to bring you to full realization of who and what you are,” Rahming said.
After the Opening Chapel, which commemorated Rabun Gap’s 114th academic year, Rahming stayed on campus to further conversations with students and faculty. Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
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