Stanley Fish 's Article Stepping On Jesus

“A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense” (Lukianoff and Haidt 44). Colleges are sheltering their students from words and ideas that students do not like or are found to be offensive. Affecting their education and cognitive skills, scientists are warning colleges to refrain from coddling the students and allowing other viewpoints to be spoken. People are speaking their minds, saying their own views; however, some people are over sensitive and take these viewpoints offensively. In the article “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt successfully argues using rhetorical questions, specific examples, and affective visuals that protecting college students from words and ideas deteriorates their education and mental health.

Zooey Glass sees Jesus as a figure to be praised, but not carelessly followed, someone who understands generosity but isn’t defined by it. He sees Jesus similarly to himself – brilliant, “the most

Both Tom and Jesus would go down as martyrs, despite the common negative stigma around their lives. Tom was viewed as a lowlife, an inferior person who did not deserve justice by the majority of citizens of Maycomb, just because he was black; however, Atticus was able to shed doubt on this prejudice with his defense of Tom. He was able to plant the seed of doubt in some citizens of Maycomb who were not completely set in their racist ways. Atticus was well aware of what he was doing: “‘This time—’ he broke off and looked at us. ‘You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin’ for an outright acquittal,’” (Lee 226). Atticus was speaking his defense of Tom to one member of the

One of the more aggravating aspects of attending a strict religious school is that if anyone suspects a student to be acting outside of what is considered “normal,” the faculty will immediately be informed. There are no secrets there. Gossip travels faster than sound, and no one in a position of authority will take “no” for an answer. The day my class began our end-of-term research papers, though, marked the moment I discovered how terrible it could be. I would never have thought my teacher to be the kind of person to bring up the issue personally, but as soon as we turned in our drafts, he asked me to stay after class. The problem, he explained, was that I had chosen an extremely controversial topic to write about,

In the 2nd chapter of Jesus and the Disinherited, the focus or point of views is on Fear. The

Today, as I attend school with the major heading as “Missions,” I hear a lot of talk about different methods in creating disciples. However, “Paul’s modus operandi for training was time on task” (pp. 59). In other words, disciples were made through time spent rather than strictly content. It sounds like relationship was a key aspect. Paul also focused on transferring these converts into true believers. It seems a lot in churches today, individuals are more focused on content rather than time. Therefore, they spend more time in the church “learning” than spending time with those that need “discipled.” With that, people in the church tend to “convert” others or brag about increased attendance, but have no plan to turn these individuals into true believers.

Once, when St. Anthony of Padua attempted to preach the true Gospel of the Catholic Church to ahiests who would not listen to him, he went out and preached his message to the fish. This was not, as liberals and naturalists have tried to say, for the instruction of the fish, but rather for the glory of God, the delight of the angels, and the easing of his own heart. When critics saw the fish begin to gather, they realized they should also listen to what Anthony had to say.

The next concern among Christian individuals and organizations relates to the idea of a governmental takeover, infringing on education through the use of standards to “control the beliefs and actions of parents and their students” (Theriot, 2014). In this case, the argument relates to how these standardized tests based on the Common Core expectations focus on the elimination of passages, questions or answers that implicitly or explicitly show any bias. Bauerlien (2015), author of “Standardized Culture an article

Which of the many reasons offered for the condemnation of Jesus by the authorities rings most true to you as the real one? Why?

The most important thing that this class taught me was the art of discussion. Out of all of the classes that I’ve taken at Dordt, this one probably ranked near the top when it came to the students’ engagement in discussion. In today’s pluralistic society, it is our Christian duty to not cloister ourselves away from the rest of the world, but rather to learn how to hold an effective and considerate discussion about controversial subjects. If it hasn’t become obvious enough by now, I have always been not afraid of being different and

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.” (Romans 1:16) You need to stand up for what you believe in, just like I would stand up for Christ, like this Bible verse says. I believe that you need to stand up for what you strongly believe in, and I strongly believe in Christ. I love the Lord, and I would do anything for him. He gave his life for me, and that is the best thing you could give anyone. I would do anything for him!

Jesus devoted all his life to fighting and overcoming evils, which made him win respect from many people. When he was executed, people came from many areas arrived to plead for him. Unfortunately, he was sentenced to death. It is a pity for people to get to know that Jesus would die. Just because Jesus did many good deeds for others, he was respected deeply by his people.

On the third day after Jesus Christ was crucified, Mary Magdalena and Mary went to the tomb where Jesus laid. As they arrived there was a great earthquake and an angel from heaven rolled the stone from the door to sit on it. Of course the two women were full of fear because these occurrences happened out of thin air. The two guards that Pilate had placed at the door were completely sacred and even became like dead men. The difference between all the witnesses was that the two women were believers and the guards were not. We can already imagine the reaction the guards had compared two Mary Magdalena and Mary. These two women were filled with joy after the angel told them Jesus was not there anymore for he had risen as he said.

Teachers have the opportunity to present their views, but influencing students opinions is not their job. Their purpose is to educate so that throughout their lifetime, students can form their own opinions. Once a teacher makes their personal beliefs, religion, ideology, or political affiliation, evident to his or her students, the dynamic of the classroom shifts. Even if a teacher is not purposely trying to influence his or her students’ views and beliefs, a stigma is created. Teachers’ divulging their own political views creates the perception of the teacher having a bias. Even though a teacher may try to be non-partisan, students may be less likely to voice their own views. Students might change their opinions on subjects in order to align themselves with their teacher in hopes of achieving a higher grade. Depending on the group of students, the teacher’s position may offend some and their perspective of their teacher will be forever

Controversy is everywhere, especially in social studies. Imagine trying to decide which issues to discuss and which issues to leave alone. This is what social studies teachers regularly face in their classrooms. Now the questions become how comfortable is a teacher when he or she must teach controversial issues and is teaching these issues important. A recent study explored this problem.