Friday, October 27, 2006

The faculty book discussion group on My Fundamentalist Education, by Christine Rosen, is scheduled for the HS media center on November 28 at 3:45pm. (ES teachers may need to ask for permission to leave right at dismissal.) The books have been ordered and should arrive next week. I'll make sure each of you who signed up gets a copy. Here is the participant list for this book:

Adam Heath
Deb Mackay
Tom Burns
Jason Crary
Leslie Hejduk
Buzz Inboden
Tanya Cordial
Beth Heisey
Mike O’Neill
Jane Kettering
Judy Bechtel
Gretchen Swift
Linda Hall
Marti Alt
Judy McElroy
Patti Hayer
Kristen Yaiko
Troy McIntosh
Bill Williams

A good turnout!

Obviously, it will be important that everyone reads the book prior to the discussion date. Here are some questions to sort of get the ball rolling on the discussion, although we don't need to limit ourselves to these. I really don't want to this to be a time of just answering a set of questions, but rather a discussion among of us the ideas and themes of the book.

  • Why do you think Rosen wrote this book?
  • What did you perceive her tone to be?
  • What were her major criticisms of her Christian schooling? Are they valid? In part? In entirety? Not at all?
  • Were there indicators that her criticisms were simply the product of a lack of understanding spiritual things?
  • Is there anything we can learn about ourselves from criticism from outsiders?
  • What other major questions, issues, ideas came to mind as you read this book?

Feel free to post comments here prior to and after the meeting! It would be great if there were some posts on here that we could interact with on the 28th.

3 Comments:

At 4:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Troy:

I see that you are a fellow early morning e-mailer/blogger! Best time to do some thinking, isn't it?

I haven't finished the book yet, but I keep wondering how different her perspective might have been if her home had actively endorsed the statement of faith of the school.

BTW, Grace Livingston Hill was one of my favorite authors in junior high, though I soon figured out that her stories all fit the same patterns--rich girl falls in love with poor boy, or rich boy falls in love with poor girl!

Am looking forward to the discussion.

Marti

 
At 5:25 AM, Blogger Troy McIntosh said...

Good point about the parents. But as Aslan says, we are never allowed to know "what would have happened."

 
At 11:40 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

not sure that anyone is checking in here, but thanks for doing this Troy. I think that this will add a greater sense of scholarship to our campuses.

 

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