Final class update
Thank you and thanks be to God for another great year! I'm thankful to be saying goodbye on a high note in spite of the crazy state of the world. Once we get settled I'll be working in earnest on continuing the classes online. I'll touch base with you when I have something more solid to share on that.
Meanwhile, here's what we covered at our last class.
Part 1: Student responses / debates
If you missed the class and want to catch up, please read the notes in the update above and then contact me. We do have print copies of the script that you may borrow and bring back to the following class meeting, and I have a recording of the discussion portion.
About Dr. Jerome Lejeune:
More information and cool resources:
https://youtu.be/SVRJnoQJgoY
Response to the Overpopulation canard
If you missed class or want to review:
Our next class will be Sunday, January 5.
(No class the next two weeks. Enjoy your Christmas break!)
Last time:
We began with a brief discussion of the question the students were asked to consider for last time's homework.
We then continued to the main topic, Truth -- what it is, why it matters, and how we can arrive at it. In the P&C class, we will be considering arguments from a philosophical point of view, i.e. looking at evidence in a logical way to arrive at the truth, rather than using opinions or beliefs.
If you missed class or want to review:
Also mentioned in class:
Class date: 17 March, 2019
IMPORTANT: The focus is on transgender ideology and its errors, as distinct from individuals who experience transgender feelings.
Thought to ponder:
How can it be that if a girl likes pink and princesses, she’s the victim of tyrannical social conditioning, but if a boy does, that means he’s really a girl?
1. Why does transgenderism matter to you? Particular areas where the ideology is being pushed strongly today:
Class date: 1/20/19
Class will be not meeting next Sunday.
Our next class meeting will be January 20.
Last time, the class met with Mr. Kevin Doran to discuss the fifth chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "Truth and Freedom." There was an equipment snafu because someone had borrowed the TV / DVD cart and not returned it. Kevin soldiered on and worked creatively around it. Thank you, Kevin!!
Key points:
No class this Sunday.
Our next class meeting is Sunday, Nov 04.
Summary of last time:
God loves us and wants us to be happy, so He gives us rules to help us make the kinds of choices that will in fact make us happy. There is a connection between happiness and holiness -- the choices that will help us become the best versions of ourselves are the same choices that will also bring us happiness. (Video: God's Dream for You.)
Class will be meeting next Sunday, January 24.
Unless too many students are away for the West Coast Walk for Life .... If this is you, please let me know!
Last time, we completed the sixth chapter of Theology of the Body for Teens: "The Language of the Body." Key points:
