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The document is a presentation by Mike Simmonds discussing the intersection of education and faith, emphasizing the importance of teaching religious truths to foster personal and social well-being. It highlights the role of educators and schools in promoting human flourishing through spiritual and moral development, while also addressing justice and hospitality within educational settings. Simmonds advocates for a distinctively Christian education that enriches the learning experience and engages students in understanding their faith and values in a cultural context.
Education cultural advocacy pathfinder slides
- 1. A presentation byMIKE SIMMONDSForin June/July 2011© Mike Simmonds GO Ministries, 2011
- 2. The Bible in our cultureEducation with Mike SimmondsEducation Consultant
- 3. Picture from dan.holtonon FlickrCultural DriverEducation
- 6. “there is nothing more vitally important than the inculcation and the apprehension of Religious Truth”
- 7. “it is the task of the Church in every century to serve its generation according to the will of God.” Canon Charles Smyth, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, on 150th Anniversary of the Foundation of The Society, 12.10.61#HOPEGOV
- 10. “Teach them to your children. Talk about them all the time -whether you're at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting up in the morning. Write them on the door frames of your homes and on your town gates”. Deuteronomy 11 verses 19-20
- 11. How do you already engage with schools?
- 13. Influencing with the BibleMaking a Bible Society
- 15. “The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped”E Peterson Eat this Book page 62
- 16. What is education (for)?Human flourishingPersonal & social well being; andAttainment & achievement
- 18. “...chase after justice, faith, love and peace; you’ll be in the company of all who call on the Lord from a pure heart.... And the Lord’s servant mustn’t be a fighter, but must be gentle to all people, able to teach, able to bear evil without resentment, able to correct opponents with a meek spirit...” 2 Timothy 2.22-25
- 19. “Education is incarnated in a person. It exists in the hearts of people”Professor Bart McGettrickLiverpool Hope University“The Word became flesh”John 1.14
- 20. Ananias & Saul
- 21. Viewing students and teachers as made in God’s image, we will seek to pattern our schools in ways appropriate to those who are:SpiritualCreativeResponsibleMoral Rational EmotionalCreated in and for relationship
- 22. “For those involved in specifically Christian Schools .... the practice of hospitality (..welcoming and making space for strangers ..) ... should serve as a vital resource in the preparation of students to live lives of human flourishing, lives that genuinely contribute to the flourishing of everyone....”Bretherton, L. (2004) ‘Tolerance, Hospitality and Education: A Theological Proposal’ in Studies in Christian Ethics 17:1, 80-103Hospitality
- 23. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”justicejusticeshalomMatthew 6 verse 33
- 24. "There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew."From "Recovering from Apartheid", in The New Yorker, 18 November 1996.
- 25. “Historically, the Church, in this country and elsewhere, has invested heavily in education as an aspect of the difference that God's action seeks to bring about. .”“Christians continue to be committed to education, therefore, as a matter of doing justice to humanity, seeking its liberation and self-awareness.”Archbishop of CanterburyKeynote Address at Church of England Academy Family Launch Conference, Lambeth Palace , Wednesday 21 October 2009
- 26. Spiritual & moral developmentHouse of CommonsEducation Bill 2011(5B) In reporting under subsection (5), the Chief Inspector must consider— a) the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils at the school;#HOPEGOV
- 27. “The aspiration to offer distinctively Christian education should not be perceived as a tribal threat but as an opportunity to enhance and enrich education”Cooling T, Doing God in Education, Theos p44
- 28. Opportunities to make a differenceBe the Word - Incarnation
- 29. Christian difference is therefore not an insertion of something new into the old from outside, but a bursting out of the new precisely within the proper space of the oldMiroslavVolf, Captive to the Word of God, page 72
- 30. Christians ask, “Which beliefs and practices of the culture that is ours must we reject now that our self has been reconstituted by the new birth. Which can we retain? What must we reshape to reflect better the values of God’s creation?”MiroslavVolf, Captive to the Word of God, page 73
- 32. PROJECT REPORTChris James, Steve Brammer, Michael Connolly, Miles Fertig, Jane James and Jeff JonesUNIVERSITY OF BATHThe ‘hidden givers’:A study of school governing bodies in England
- 33. “the precious light of ordinariness must be allowed to shine on expert activities if those activities are to be healthy".Joan Sallis
- 34. Support your teachersPhoto by judybaxterfrom Flickr
- 36. Enabling every child to hear the story of the Bible at school in their primary yearswww.openthebook.net
- 39. www.smsc.org.uk
- 47. Bringing signs of the kingdom into children’s lives
Editor's Notes
- #5: 1833 Declaration of the Laity, signed by no less than 230,000 heads of families, and presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, afforded a timely warning of the strength of Church opinion in the country; and the man who organized that Declaration was Joshua Watson. The founder of today’s NATIONAL SOCIETY
- #7: My Primary School in Bromley, Kent
- #10: My Secondary school where my primary school is now located.