{"id":484,"date":"2013-08-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/myths-and-sacred-texts.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:35:44","slug":"myths-and-sacred-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/myths-and-sacred-texts.html","title":{"rendered":"Myths and Sacred Texts"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-c_cfUt4WK-0\/UggEqAgthEI\/AAAAAAAADL8\/I3nld-_J8Ko\/s1600\/faith+and+reason.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-c_cfUt4WK-0\/UggEqAgthEI\/AAAAAAAADL8\/I3nld-_J8Ko\/s400\/faith+and+reason.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">What role does myth play in helping us to understand and define religion? That\u2019s exactly what Bill Moyers set out to discover in 1988 when he interviewed a number of writers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/faithandreason\/perspectives.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">about their perspective on faith and sacred texts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">I ask my students to explore the site and read and listen to audio clips of some the interviews and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/11ZUFN3vEIp-SwpYNgHbjmopnmAjmWImovZD7Pjo8rXU\/edit?usp=sharing\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">complete this chart<\/a> for the different writers. \u00a0After they complete the chart, I ask the students to respond to a couple quotes in a journal I created on Blackboard.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What role does myth play in helping us to understand and define religion? 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