A few questions/thoughts:
Rohan Pryor wrote:
A couple of friends teach at Melbourne's Methodist Ladies College (http://www.mlc.vic.edu.au/), in particular a Year 10 class on Christianity (part of the wider World Religions subject, I think).
They're looking for online discussion forums where the girls would be able to ask questions about Christianity, and I mentioned the existence of this list.
What sort of thing are they looking for? If they want "official church teachings", then I doubt *any* discussion board is the right forum to seek out. If they want a range of responses, then Darren's suggestion of gush.com.au certainly isn't the answer - it's ultra conservative. I wouldn't encourage ANY young seeker to go there, because they'll learn that god's black and white, and knowing what's right is simple so long as they're saved, AND they'll get evangelised as soon as they say they're not christian! Then there's Darren's question about age - what age range do they want to talk to? And what about denomination - shouldn't they discuss christianity with people from a range of denominations, if they're going to learn anything much? And what do they want to know - the history, the beliefs, the philosophies, personal experiences...?
Bottom line is, they're at MLC - they'll be getting daily christian input anyway (not that that tells them much about the basics) - what's the purpose of the unit of study and what part of that purpose do they propose to fill by "talking to christians"?
But I'm not sure if we're the right sort of forum for a group of Year 10 girls. Then again, we might be, or decide to become so.
What do others think? Could we handle some naive or robust questions? Could we behave appropriately?
Perhaps they'd learn the most crucial point - that there's a lot of breadth of opinion between christians even within a denomination :-) But one possibility that occurs to me is that we could set up a spin-off group with just a few people with a spread of beliefs and let them join that.
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