{"id":12063,"date":"2022-11-26T12:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2022-11-26T12:57:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T18:57:35","slug":"middle-and-high-school-youth-religious-education-27-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/11\/26\/middle-and-high-school-youth-religious-education-27-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle and High School Youth Religious Education (27 November 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12010\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UnderstandingTheBibleYouthRE.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>This Sunday (27 November 2022) &#8212; &#8220;Understanding the Bible&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adapted for this age group from a curriculum based on the book by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/offices\/people\/john-buehrens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Buehrens<\/a> (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Understanding_The_Bible\/CKdyrRwBmRkC?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This week &#8212; Session 2 &#8212; &#8220;Beginnings&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We will look at one of the creation stories from the Book of Genesis and some exploration of what it may have meant to the people who first told it.<\/p>\n<p>And we will explore why should Unitarian Universalists should read the Bible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These stories belong to us, too.\u00a0 The Jewish and Christian scriptures are the stories of the &#8220;parents and grandparents&#8221; of our faith movement.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s important for us to know these stories and learn about the ways they have been used for good to promote justice &#8212; and for ill to justify injustice.<\/li>\n<li>The Bible contains some big &#8220;Capital T Truths&#8221; that are neither science nor history but are nevertheless of great value to our experience as humans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday (27 November 2022) &#8212; &#8220;Understanding the Bible&#8221; Adapted for this age group from a curriculum based on the book by John Buehrens (Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals). This week &#8212; Session 2 &#8212; &#8220;Beginnings&#8221; We will look at one of the creation stories from the Book of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2022\/11\/26\/middle-and-high-school-youth-religious-education-27-november-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Middle and High School Youth Religious Education (27 November 2022)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}