{"id":7352,"date":"2017-09-30T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7352"},"modified":"2017-09-30T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T18:05:47","slug":"no-easy-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7352","title":{"rendered":"NO EASY ANSWERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"irc_mimg irc_hic itHEaFiYP21w-lvVgf-rIiHk\"><a class=\"irc_mil i3597 itHEaFiYP21w-zixyDjKkw5M\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjGiojVv83WAhWoi1QKHd6DB3MQjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frandalrauser.com%2F2014%2F06%2Fis-it-time-to-teach-the-controversy%2F&amp;psig=AOvVaw2Z78VdZU0Cp5XZX_ApbbzE&amp;ust=1506881063653859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-noload=\"\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjGiojVv83WAhWoi1QKHd6DB3MQjRwIBw\" data-cthref=\"\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjGiojVv83WAhWoi1QKHd6DB3MQjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frandalrauser.com%2F2014%2F06%2Fis-it-time-to-teach-the-controversy%2F&amp;psig=AOvVaw2Z78VdZU0Cp5XZX_ApbbzE&amp;ust=1506881063653859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/randalrauser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Teach-the-Controversy.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for controversy\" width=\"575\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve asked fellow teachers, and certainly wrestled myself with the following question: How much as a teacher of God&#8217;s Word do you introduce others to the complexity, debates, and depth of Christianity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teachers should seek to edify and equip.\u00a0 American Christians have a decidedly anti-intellectual bent coupled with an allergy to complexity.\u00a0 How much does a teacher push back on those by introducing topics that cause people to be uncomfortable with how flimsy their beliefs may be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve asked fellow teachers, and certainly wrestled myself with the following question: How much as a teacher of God&#8217;s Word do you introduce others to the complexity, debates, and depth of Christianity? Teachers should seek to edify and equip.\u00a0 American Christians have a decidedly anti-intellectual bent coupled with an allergy to complexity.\u00a0 How much [&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":[43,122,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-controversy","category-learningeducation","category-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","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=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7355,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions\/7355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}