Thanks for the generous comments, John. More importantly, thanks for this piece, which has me eager to read your description of the intellectual/spiritual tool box. What you're talking about certainly sounds more like what I value about education on our campuses than the "worldview" language.
Thanks for this and AMEN! There is a stigma/challenge in and around "decon" it seems like because young folk aren't told/trained to know it's OK to wrestle and ask questions. So instead of it being another "growth in the walk" avenue or a time to further engage Messiah, it becomes a full-on crisis of faith. Apparently, Yeshua may have had "doubters" as followers😉. Can't wait to see what that toolkit might look like. If I may make a humble suggestion for consideration - https://www.martysolomon.com/books - Marty's (Impact Campus Ministries/Bema Podcast) new book on wrestling and learning to ask better questions of the text in community.
BTW in this same vein you may be familiar with the “Good Christian Fun” podcast (https://www.goodchristianfun.com/). Two thirty-somethings raised in strongly evangelical circles revisiting the Christian cultural products of their childhood with other comedians and celebs. Lots of discussion about deconstruction but not a lot of reconstructing. I know there are others in this vein. A little cringey when they deal with 80s culture that we grew up with and they don’t get it. But insightful about folks who were in Christian colleges 10 or so years ago.
John we need to talk! This is--as I think you know--exactly what we are wrestling with at SPU in our GE review. We have an opening, even in the fraught and divided season we are in, to try to build some of this in. Many of us as faculty (even those of us beyond our 30s and 40s) have been or are going through our own reconstruction. One of our concerns, though, is to keep looking forward. We don’t want to design a GE program for ourselves but for our students now and in the future. That said, we do need to design it such that we as faculty find it compelling, engaging, rigorous, and workable. Thanks for your writing.
Thanks for the generous comments, John. More importantly, thanks for this piece, which has me eager to read your description of the intellectual/spiritual tool box. What you're talking about certainly sounds more like what I value about education on our campuses than the "worldview" language.
Thanks for this and AMEN! There is a stigma/challenge in and around "decon" it seems like because young folk aren't told/trained to know it's OK to wrestle and ask questions. So instead of it being another "growth in the walk" avenue or a time to further engage Messiah, it becomes a full-on crisis of faith. Apparently, Yeshua may have had "doubters" as followers😉. Can't wait to see what that toolkit might look like. If I may make a humble suggestion for consideration - https://www.martysolomon.com/books - Marty's (Impact Campus Ministries/Bema Podcast) new book on wrestling and learning to ask better questions of the text in community.
Thanks again and keep up the great work! Shalom
BTW in this same vein you may be familiar with the “Good Christian Fun” podcast (https://www.goodchristianfun.com/). Two thirty-somethings raised in strongly evangelical circles revisiting the Christian cultural products of their childhood with other comedians and celebs. Lots of discussion about deconstruction but not a lot of reconstructing. I know there are others in this vein. A little cringey when they deal with 80s culture that we grew up with and they don’t get it. But insightful about folks who were in Christian colleges 10 or so years ago.
John we need to talk! This is--as I think you know--exactly what we are wrestling with at SPU in our GE review. We have an opening, even in the fraught and divided season we are in, to try to build some of this in. Many of us as faculty (even those of us beyond our 30s and 40s) have been or are going through our own reconstruction. One of our concerns, though, is to keep looking forward. We don’t want to design a GE program for ourselves but for our students now and in the future. That said, we do need to design it such that we as faculty find it compelling, engaging, rigorous, and workable. Thanks for your writing.