This seems like a good time to ask the basic question, “How’s it going in class?” Feel free to offer constructive feedback about the course. Anything you like about the course so far? Please present at least one paragraph.

Here is the ready-to-answer question of Christian theology

January 27: Rigby, Speaking of God (chapter three on Incarnation)

Question: Drawing on Rigby's observations on pp. 86-90 (on Chalcedon), what difference does Jesus being fully divine and fully human make to how you live your everyday life as a person of faith? If you don't identify as Christian, how do you think the identify of Jesus should influence Christian choices?

      In her book Living by Fiction, Annie Dillard points out, along these lines, that most of what we have to say to one another is about "artifacts"-that is, specific things that have already been made by human beings that can be created, managed, examined, known, and mastered. 86  Dillard seems to include, in her understanding of artifacts, not only physical objects we make and use, or make and admire. She includes, also, the systems we develop that frame what is beyond our scope-perhaps the periodic table, the color wheel, or, even, a birdwatchers' guide. What is lacking in our world and our lives is not intriguing discussions of artifacts. What is lacking, she says, are those who are courageous enough to say something immediate about existence itself. "Who will interpret the raw universe?" she asks. "We have a shortage of metaphysicians." 87   This is a problem, Dillard thinks, because "if we confine our interpretive investigations to strictly bounded aspects of culture ... we miss learning what we most want to know."88

You are required to create a topic for your poster. It should relate in some way to youth and social justice.

• You must research and present your topic to the class and submit the poster for your research assignment.
• Your presentation should be approximately 7 minutes in length. (No less than 5 minutes and no more than 10 minutes)
• Your presentation must not be a simple reading of your document but rather a summary of the main points. Your instructor may refuse your selection if someone else already selected the same topic (depending on number of students in group).
• Your documentation must include a bibliography of resources that you consulted in the research. You must use at least 3 reputable sources in your bibliography.
• In your opening remarks of your presentation, explain briefly why the topic you selected is of interest to you.

Note that specific topics are easier to research than vast general ones. In other words, a topic like “5 reasons youth don’t vote and what to do about it” is an easier topic to research and present than “youth and voting”. Your instructor can help you focus your ideas and scope of research.