{"id":2027,"date":"2013-04-17T06:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2013-04-17T06:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T12:56:18","slug":"a-fellow-minnesotan-rocks-the-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/04\/17\/a-fellow-minnesotan-rocks-the-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"A fellow Minnesotan rocks The Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Blaze, Glen Beck&#8217;s website, is currently discussing fellow Minnesotan James S. Morrison who teaches high school in Red Wing. He recently contacted The Blaze (the guy must be fearless) to let them know he teaches a religion class&#8230; one they may not find agreeable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy goal in all of this: Move public education in the direction of inclusive honest curriculums that don\u2019t shy away from controversial topics,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Morrison does is examine all religions with a critical eye. If you don&#8217;t think that sounds controversial, you haven&#8217;t met The Blaze people. They&#8217;re not happy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morrison isn\u2019t a Christian, but he told us that he\u2019s also not an atheist. Without an attachment to any faith, the teacher describes himself as an \u201cagnostic social scientist with a passion for concrete evidence and logical reasoning.\u201d Naturally, he isn\u2019t looking at life through a faith lens and he\u2019s most concerned, it seems, with bringing students face-to-face with controversial content that they must learn to critically analyze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like we have a lot in common. I feel a road trip to Red Wing coming on. Hope they have a Caribou there. I&#8217;m buying the guy a cuppa joe. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Morrison maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/teachnotpreach.com\/\">fascinating blog<\/a> where he outlines his classroom activities and engages in lively discussion. He&#8217;s also hoping other teachers will consider using his curriculum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am making myself available to any teacher or district that is looking for some advice and direction,\u201d the educator said. \u201cIf children can dissect frogs in biology, they should certainly have a chance to dissect religion in social studies \u2013 it\u2019s all the same. It\u2019s all about learning and empowering children with knowledge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you click the link below, consider adding a polite comment to the conversation. So far, the comment thread is a tad one sided.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/04\/15\/meet-the-teacher-whos-bringing-god-back-into-public-schools-but-who-says-hes-a-big-threat-to-religious-conservatives\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=Share+Buttons\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Blaze, Glen Beck&#8217;s website, is currently discussing fellow Minnesotan James S. Morrison who teaches high school in Red&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}