Pamela Jennings
GCU has a religious mission, if you review the mission. One reasonable goal to deduce from this mission is that the classroom should provide opportunities for reflection on religion in order to help learners consider the role of religion in their personal and professional lives.
Also, it is absolutely fun, in my opinion to try to draw parallels between religion and the course material.??Regarding parallels between religion and the concepts of objectivity/subjectivity, I find myself wondering how learners would characterize religious preferences on the continuum of objectivity to subjectivity.
Most of us has participated in some kind of religious program, irrespective of our religious identity. How objective are our religious choices?
If objectivity is critical for truth, as some of you implied in your discussion posts, how do you account for religion as the way to the truth? Are there any objective truths in religious practices in the sense that all would agree that a true external reality has been captured by religious practices?