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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…

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…

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…

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…

We’re talking about culture, religion, technology, and how we can know God.  Last week, Anon asked: If grace is like oxygen—everywhere, essential to life, and free—then why won’t everybody be saved? In other words, how can grace be rejected?  In every story of grace in the Scriptures—whether it be Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, Joe, David,…