Term 2 Week 8 17th June 2016 Issue No. 19
From the Principal
As a staff, this year we’ve been working through the New Hope International ‘Effective Teaching and Learning Series’ to further develop our culture as a distinctly Christian learning community, committed to excellence in Christ-centred education.
and transferable (does it make sense no matter where in the world you live?). This has been a week of the world asking worldview questions. The mass shooting in Orlando is a tragedy on many levels, with so many big questions being asked across the media and social media:
We’ve been looking at worldviews over the past couple of weeks, i.e. the belief systems that people hold and the framework that their decisions and actions are made through. Essentially, people’s beliefs will fall into one of 5 categories – Atheism (no god), Deism (a distant god), Pantheism (a god force), Theism (an essentially angry god) or Christianity (a holy, just and loving God as revealed in the Bible).
▪▪Why in a ‘peaceful country’, is there access to weapons of war that continue to be used in massacres such as these? Is the country more or less peaceful because of guns? Should gun laws be tighter? If gun laws are tighter, why did attacks such as these take place in France and Belgium where the laws are very tight? Can laws truly protect us from people intent on doing harm?
Our worldview will help us make simple decisions but it will also be the rock on which we stand in difficult times. Is our worldview coherent (can we explain it?), consistent (does it work no matter the circumstances?)
▪▪Why this senseless loss of life? Why target defenceless people when they can’t protect themselves? Almost Page 1