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state of religious education

I have realized lately the sad state of people’s understanding of Christian beliefs. I have seen many people of varied backgrounds, many living their whole life around the church, have murky if not simply wrong beliefs about the basic tenets of faith. I’m not saying that I expect everyone to have deep theological education, spending [...]

education comes from where?

In Caputo’s book More Radical Hermeneutics while making a point gives the following example, children today go online and study about Greek tragedy. The ease in which they are able to access this knowledge colors their understanding and learning about the Greek idea, one of struggle and difficulty.
Though Caputo doesn’t say much more in relation [...]

what tomorrow holds

Just a few more weeks of this, and then I am due for a break…

i guess i’m a teacher when…

I made my first syllabus.
Well I spent a majority of yesterday working out a syllabus for my Romans class. I had been putting it off for few weeks now. Partly the reason was I needed to finish working through the text so as to get a big picture of what is going on, but that [...]

stanley hauerwas on {christian} education

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]