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Between Heaven and Earth

Month: June 2023

  • Parables vs. Miracles

    Jay: We’ve been talking about what shapes our view of God and grace—starting with the effects of our modern educational experiences followed by the effects of the life and ministry of Jesus. We discussed Bloom’s taxonomy, which posits that we progress through stages our cognitive development: Recall and understanding of knowledge, its application, analysis, and…

  • Faith and Understanding

    Jay: We have been trying to understand how education may have affected our view of God and our view of grace. We’ve talked about the psychology of education and last week we began to talk about the parables of Christ, the teaching methods of Christ, and what they were trying to show us and display…

  • Abstract v. Concrete—Sacred v. Profane

    Jason led the meeting in continuance of last week’s discussion. Jay: Last week, we began a discussion of how education might shape our views of God and grace, based on an earlier comment from Michael that our psychology—the way we’re wired and the way that we’re nurtured—may affect those views. We therefore looked at some…

  • The Effects of Education on Our View of God

    As a professional educator, Jason led today’s discussion of education as a driver and component of culture, religion, technology, and our view of God. And one of the things that I think affects, in a major way, our view of God is education. Since we have professional educators in the class, I thought it would be…