Whilst DH and I were waiting to enter the school to see DD4 in her Nativity Play yesterday, it was highly entertaining to overhear the conversation going on behind us about political correctness.
Apparently there are moves afoot in rural Norfolk, of all places, to ban Christian -based Nativity Plays in council run schools there. The rumblings of discontent from the parents at our school were both vociferous and vehement; pity help our dear Headmaster should he ever decide to abolish our "Early Years Department"`s play.
More than one person said how it makes Christmas come alive and have meaning for them.
Nativity Plays as an evangelistic tool ? Why ever not?
After all, the medieval Easter Cycle and Morality plays were immensely popular as educative tools for the illiterate.
Now we have instead so many people who are theologically illiterate and know virtually nothing of the message and basics of Christianity..........
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I was telling someone today about just how theologically illiterate my students are. They now come into secondary school with 7 years of RE and not an inkling about what the Christians belief about Jesus. They've never even heard of the Trinity. My Year 8's couldn't grasp the Apostles Creed, so you can imagine that the Nicene Creed was complete gibberish and I immediately discovered that trying to teach any aspect of it was completely hopeless.
(On an unrelated note, I tried to send you an email about something... My address is the same.)
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