In February 2007 we were teaching at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, and a couple of students asked if they could create a website as their assessed work for a course on ‘Theology and Culture’. They did, and both got A’s for the course. Their intention was to research reasons why people leave church, by inviting such people to share their stories. What we (and quite likely they) did not begin to imagine was that the site would still be up and running more than two years later, and still going strong with responses and stories from people who were leaving church – but (and this is the interesting part) mostly were not giving up on faith. To learn more (and maybe share your own stories), go here.
It’s an interesting reflection to think that if we’d been inflexible about what assessed work in a graduate school should look like, a significant resource for wounded people would never have existed.
August 7, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Amen! Dennis