God on the Quad
Interesting conversation at Inside Higher Ed about a draft document that asks colleges and universities to increase attention to religion across the curriculum.Living in America, say the 25 scholars who drafted the "Wingspread Declaration on Religion and Public Life," means living in a religiously charged atmosphere.
And because of that, citizens ought to be "religiously literate," equipped to engage religious questions with civility, and able to integrate spiritual development with intellectual development, the document declares.
This is just the sort of movement that pastoral theologians ought to be championing, and seminaries and divinity schools could take the lead in critiquing the draft document, resourcing colleagues in non-religious academic disciplines about the questions involved, and implementing the final recommendations on campuses across the country.
The Wingspread Declaration has been created by the Society for Values in Higher Education, a "fellowship of teachers and others who care," which has also produced draft discussion questions for colleges and universities interested in the ongoing conversation about religion in public life.
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Saturday, January 28, 2006