{"id":6235,"date":"2016-06-15T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2016-06-15T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:04:41","slug":"the-pain-and-joy-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6235","title":{"rendered":"THE PAIN AND JOY OF LEARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I<strong>f you are following the debate swirling about the trinity, I think it is quite clear that one side has the better of the argument.\u00a0 My brief reflection on this, and by way of extension, all such challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-message \" dir=\"auto\" data-role=\"message\">\n<p><strong>Luke Timothy Johnson likes to remind us of the ancient phrase that &#8220;to learn is to suffer.&#8221; Learning many times means abandoning something we believed to be true, but now realize is not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The other side of learning is the joy of discovery. Ezekiel Cheever, the first headmaster of Massachusetts Bay, believed that &#8220;children ought to come to learn as they come to play.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>May God motivate all of us to admit when we are wrong. There will undoubtedly be some pain in the discovery, but joy will attend our way as we do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are following the debate swirling about the trinity, I think it is quite clear that one side has the better of the argument.\u00a0 My brief reflection on this, and by way of extension, all such challenges: Luke Timothy Johnson likes to remind us of the ancient phrase that &#8220;to learn is to suffer.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,37,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy","category-learningeducation","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6235\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}