Dear Amelia
Amelia Koh-Butler wrote:
Does spiritual formation through an OC education result in spiritual radicals on an insights list some 25-30-ish years later? (i.e. we were supposedly trained to think outside the cube or the sphere - are we evolving into a 4th dimension?)
Actually I don't even remember SRE classes in my OC days. Yet we must have had them. As to the theory - I'm not sure it had anything to do with the OC education per se - I just think that people of above average intelligence are more likely to find the glaring anomalies in simplistic and/or authoritarian theology, not to mention politics, and seek a more equitable way of living.
Research question: Just how many OC-ers are out there? Reunion Roll-call...
- Clare (were you at Artarmon?)
Nope - Chatswood, the year behind you. Strange we didn't remember each other when we got together a couple of years later.
Further question: How do you think your Upper Primary education has influenced your spiritual formation?
In my case, OC ed at Chatswood Primary (1975-1976) was in my pre-christian days. At the time, my teacher was a pre-christian Communist (I'm not sure how many times we studied China and we had a Re-education strategy for behaviour management). Interestingly, this teacher is now a very active member of one of the congregations I visited recently. Maybe our social justice conversations in the 70s have EVOLVED into a later spiritual articulation?
I don't think my upper primary education influenced my spiritual development at all, except in an indirect kind of way. That is, going to OC class helped me to believe a bit more in myself (though sadly not enough to avoid being abused a few years later), but I was getting so much spiritual input from sunday school and GFS that I don't recall SRE classes as being anything other than times when I knew more bible stories, and more answers to the teacher's questions, than anyone else in the class. And I have a feeling that's more of a negative than a positive in developing spiritually.
Clare *************************************************** Clare Pascoe Henderson http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************
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