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What is it?
What is it?
Discerning together the Scriptures and the history of the church’s experience, particularly in relation to their meaning for our lives in the world.
"The nature of water is soft and that of stone is hard. But if a bottle is hung above the stone, allowing the water to fall drop-by-drop, it wears away even the hardest stone. So it is with the word of God. It is soft, and our heart is very hard. But the man [sic] who hears the word of God often opens his heart to the fear of the Lord."
Abba Poeman, Desert Father.
"Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies."
Psalm 119:97-98
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Matthew 4:4
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness."
2 Timothy 3:16
Starting Questions
Starting Questions
Are there ways that your academic discipline can help students - all of us! - read Scripture more carefully?
Read about "Dislocated Exegesis" (fancy term, but pretty straightforward concept: read the Bible in unexpected places). Could you use this in your classroom or as homework? (Ex. After dissecting a pig and while the 'inner parts' are still spread out on the lab counters, could you read Psalm 139 together?! Or...in AP Gov could you have students read from a section of the minor prophets at a local police station or in front of a local court?!)
Are there tensions between the apparent teaching of Scripture and the teachings of your particular field? How could students engage in that discussion in meaningful ways?
Are there Bible passages that meaningfully connect to your content area or unit? Could students memorize them or engage with them in some way?
Maybe, instead, of reading a devotional booklet, I will read through a book of the Bible with my 1st hour students.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
The following is a list of teacher-generated ideas of ways that this practice could be implemented in the classroom or school culture.
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