Re: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School

*Maybe its time for a different Sunday School*.

It's easy to say something like this, but not so easy or desirable to live
it. There's no perfect church, and the Sunday School workers who have been
teaching my daughter are good people who perhaps aren't well informed or are
misguided on this particular question. And, I doubt there are many good
churches near where I live in which at least some of the folks won't be
influenced by YEC views. I'm convinced that God's design is for me to
fellowship with people even when I disagree with them about these things,
and not to withdraw into the "First Church of Dave." That said, if I felt
that the Sunday School teachers were specifically hounding on YEC'ism, I'd
have to confront that, and maybe eventually withdraw from the fellowship if
it couldn't be resolved. I don't think that's the case, though. It's just
spillover.

On 1/5/07, SKrogh <panterragroup@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of David Opderbeck
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 2:47 PM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: [asa] Rubber Meeting Road -- My Kid in Public School
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> This afternoon was one of those "rubber meeting the road" times. My
11-year-old daughter, who goes to public school, adores her science
teacher. Today, however, she came home very upset. It seems they've begun
to study evolution, and my daughter is feeling an enormous conflict with
what she's been taught in Sunday School. This is so difficult and delicate
a thing to have to start navigating. One the one hand I don't want to nip
her respect for the church and her Sunday School teachers or to bring her
into conflict with any of her Christian friends; on the other, I don't want
her to be afraid of science; and on yet another, I don't want her to think
scientists necessarily have the last word. I did my best to start
explaining how there are different ways of looking at how God created the
heavens and the earth, and that some things -- like that there is a God and
that God is the creator -- are primary while others -- like how old the
earth is or what natural processes God used to create -- can be discussed.
Anyone have any tips, resources, etc. for helping a kid this age start to
navigate this minefield?
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> Maybe its time for a different Sunday School.
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