{"id":149,"date":"2005-04-05T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2007-11-09T00:20:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T05:20:44","slug":"good-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Good advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an old Unitarian Universalist curriculum pamphlet the other day, <em>A Guide to the Study of Jesus To Be Used with &#8220;Who Do Men [sic] Say That I Am?&#8221;<\/em> by Susanna Wilder Heinz, published by Beacon Press in 1966. Ms. Heinz writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study of the life and teachings of Jesus is best left for the adolescent years&#8230;. This is not to say that we should remain completely silent about Jesus until a child reaches his [sic] teens. To do so is to permit the teaching about Jesus to be done by default. If we remain silent, the neighbor&#8217;s children won&#8217;t! It is with dismay that some parents who follow the laissez faire method of &#8216;let him make up his own mind when he is old enough,&#8217; discover that they no longer have a child grown into a liberal religious adult, but a child grown into his neighbor&#8217;s religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems to me this remains good advice today, nearly four decades later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an old Unitarian Universalist curriculum pamphlet the other day, A Guide to the Study of Jesus To Be Used with &#8220;Who Do Men [sic] Say That I Am?&#8221; by Susanna Wilder Heinz, published by Beacon Press in 1966. Ms. Heinz writes: The study of the life and teachings of Jesus is best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education","tag-jesus-of-nazareth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}