{"id":1270,"date":"2011-08-12T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-08-12T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:04:55","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/08\/back-to-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For many of us, return to teaching or studying has just happened, is in the process of happening, or is about to happen. And so I thought I would create an open thread on that topic. Are you teaching\/studying? What are you looking forward to, or apprehensive about, in the coming semester or academic year? What are you doing that\u2019s new or interesting?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.scholastic.co.uk\/assets\/a\/92\/d2\/svasic-istock-main-681090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"135\">I\u2019ll be teaching my first year seminar course on faith, doubt and reason, my course on the Bible, and a course on Paul and his letters. I\u2019ll post separately about some of the things I will be doing differently in those courses in this coming semester, in particular as I increasingly focus my courses on cultivating skills for finding and identifying reliable sources of information, and using the internet discerningly.<\/p>\n<p>What does the new academic year have in store for you? 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