Teaching credentials…

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Questions from a Ewe

Food for thought:

* Imagine your English teacher demonstrating mastery of the language by regularly uttering statements like this, “We seen them deer when we was up north!”
* Imagine your mathematics teacher regularly adding numbers incorrectly.
* Imagine your social studies teacher talking about visiting “Toledo, the capital of the U.S.”
* Imagine your music teacher with an inability to count rhythms correctly or carry a tune.

Now try to imagine yourself valuing these teachers’ lessons. In each case, regardless of the theory expressed, actions belied their true subject-matter expertise to the point you probably justifiably questioned their credibility…a lot… Their actions told you, “I am not qualified to teach about this.”

Now:

* Imagine your Catholic faith teacher, who professes to know more than you about truth, being exposed as a liar.
* Imagine your faith teacher…