History

In both undergrad and grad school, I have been exposed to a telling of history that was absent from even my Bay Area public school upbringing.  In attending university and grad school with folks from other areas of the country, it has become obvious to me that my California education has offered a much more balanced view of national history, science, and literature than is offered in many other places in the country.  Many students receive a Eurocentric telling of our history that glosses over the crap things that white folks have done in making this country what it is, for better or worse.  Also, education systems in other states are far less likely to tell histories that challenge the actions and beliefs of Christians throughout history and currently.

Many folks in the the churches I will work in have come from places that offer sub-par educational standards.  Or they come from private school educations that offer particularly biased tellings (or very prejudiced).  Or they are from a generation before there was a concern for historical honesty or inclusion of non-white narratives.  Or they don't have the level of education that some of us do (I have noticed that high school tellings of history are different than university tellings, mostly by being Euronormative and overly simplistic).  

This makes me not only desire a church that can muster a private school educational program (If only progressive Christian private schools were a thing), but also to think that it could be beneficial to a religious community to offer history classes.  

Basically I sort of want to be a minister who provides very serious adult education in Bible, history, and religious and spiritual traditions... but most churches stress education for youth and often that education is pretty much oversimplified Bible storytelling.  

Basically, someone needs to find me a community that is deeply religious, liberal, and values education... 

and that is in the Bay Area.

... Dammit.  

The Kin-dom isn't here yet.