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Religious Instruction Yields Class Debate,
Discussion, Seminar
"To prepare each student for life rather than just to present an academic study," the Reverend Gordon Allen introduced active student participation into the religious instruction course this year.
In the second semester, Mr. Allen held a number of seminars to provide students with new opportunities to assert their personal ideas on human ethics. In addition, Mr. Allen encouraged a comparison of these ideas with lessons drawn from the Bible as well as those represented by other students' opinions.
Before the second semester's introduction to the workings of the early Christian Church, the first semester had emphasized the documentary nature of the Old Testament. Even within these histortcal precepts, Mr. Allen sought to point out the Bible's relevancy to contemporary times.
Rev. Cordon Allen reads a selection Psalms to members of his R.I. class - a part of an in-depth study of the Old Testament.
Stewart Little, Andy Prather, Greg Ferebee, Jim Cherry, Bob File, Jim Leath, and Oliver Crawley give their attention to a discussion of
contemporary and previous theological questions, one of Rev. Allen's sections of Religious Instruction.
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