Room for God at School
(Glad to read this in today's Age, because there was no room for him in the inn!)
No, really, some sensible comments from an archbishop re God in school. And he's Anglican to boot!
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, has weighed into the education debate from the pulpit, arguing that government schools should not keep God out of the classroom. "Religion is a part of everyday life, and when we expel religion it leaves a vacuum for ignorance and it doesn't help us to relate to each other," he said outside St Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, after delivering a sermon on secular public education.
An interesting debate, especially for those of us involved with the chaplain (David Horne, who's a member of our blog - albeit a shy one!) at St Helena SC.
Jensen goes on:
"God created the world, it belongs to him and our daily life in the world is secular," he said. "But if we cut God out of the picture and are only interested in this world, that's really called secularism - the philosophy that there is no God." While parent-approved scripture lessons and studies in comparative religion came under this definition, it could also include government-paid teachers taking it upon themselves to read the Bible to their students, he said.
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