{"id":6594,"date":"2006-08-06T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T10:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html"},"modified":"2006-08-06T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T10:16:57","slug":"where-are-you-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html","title":{"rendered":"Where are you stuck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signs that we have a very <\/em>long way to go….<\/p>\n

I will disguise the facts of this post the best I can…someone associated with a Catholic high school in the United States wrote to say that he\/she fought a battle with the rest of his\/her department about summer reading for theology class students. The first choice was…<\/p>\n

Jonathan Livingston Seagull.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t talk to me about people stuck in the 50’s who want to go back to some mythical Catholic life that never was. I’m thinking that the people stuck in the 70’s are a bit more of a problem, ’cause they’re still running a lot of things.<\/p>\n

I mean, we had to read JLS  <\/em>in Freshman religion class in 1974, and even we <\/em>knew it was a joke then. <\/em>It bowls me over to think that there are folks out there talking to each other and saying, "Wow, it would really be great if the kids read Jonathan Livingston Seagull…<\/em>it’s just <\/em>what kids today need to get them jazzed about Christ."<\/p>\n

It doesn’t get much better, unfortunately. Because the final selection, despite my correspondent’s protests was…<\/p>\n

Joshua<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Two words: Mr. Blue<\/a><\/p>\n

Three, even more radical words for Catholic educators: Gospel of Mark<\/a>. Or Luke. Or Matthew? John? <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

gs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Signs that we have a very long way to go…. I will disguise the facts of this post the best I can…someone associated with a Catholic high school in the United States wrote to say that he\/she fought a battle with the rest of his\/her department about summer reading for theology class students. The first…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nWhere are you stuck? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where are you stuck? - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Signs that we have a very long way to go…. I will disguise the facts of this post the best I can…someone associated with a Catholic high school in the United States wrote to say that he\/she fought a battle with the rest of his\/her department about summer reading for theology class students. The first…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-08-06T10:16:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Where are you stuck? - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Where are you stuck? - Via Media","og_description":"Signs that we have a very long way to go…. I will disguise the facts of this post the best I can…someone associated with a Catholic high school in the United States wrote to say that he\/she fought a battle with the rest of his\/her department about summer reading for theology class students. The first…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2006-08-06T10:16:57+00:00","author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html","name":"Where are you stuck? - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-08-06T10:16:57+00:00","dateModified":"2006-08-06T10:16:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/08\/where-are-you-stuck.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Where are you stuck?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}