Blog Assignments

Questions:

First Entry: What factors of your native culture have informed your religious world view? Explain the impact of these factors

From the following 13 questions, you will choose 8 to answer over the course of this unit. Refer to the rubric and the blog ppt on edline for more requirements and expectations.

When you comment on other's posts, remember to follow these rules:
1. Be Respectful
2. Have a point or focus
3. No swearing
4. Use formal/sophisticated language.
5. Only use constructive criticism- be positive!

What is faith?

1. How do I relate to faith? How did Don Richardson relate to Faith? How do the Sawi relate to faith?
2. How does Faith relate to the world in which we live?
3. What should we do when we are confronted with other cultures?
4. What does God expect us to do for other cultures and faiths?

What should we do?

5. What should society do for “uncivilized cultures” like the Sawi?
6. What does Jesus want us to do for the Sawi?
7. What do traders and NGO’S do for these cultures?
8. What do mission organisations do for these people?

Who or what is the Peace Child to me?

9. What concepts in the Sawi culture intrigued / reviled / saddened / angered / surprised you?
10. How different is your modern culture from the sawi tenants?
11. How did Christianity change this culture?
12. What reflections and connections can you make with this novel?
13. Choose a representative passage from this novel that holds particular significence to you. Type it in and comment on its significance.