Guest Post

I am moved again by something dredged up from an old sermon: the tomb-marker of Sir Robert Shirley, a baronet "whose singular praise it is to have done the best things in the worst times, and to have hoped them in the most calamitous."

In recent conversations with my seminary classmates, we've been lamenting the state of Christian education. In many churches it is evident that the average member hasn't grown in religious or biblical knowledge since he or she heard moralistic tales of Noah, Esther or Daniel as a child. Some even resist pastoral attempts to expand their Christian knowledge, and they simply refuse to learn about other religions. As seminarians, we are struggling with how to respond to this.