Well, as Thursday's episode ended last week,

Pastor John, you had just begun to talk to us about the joy of learning.

We'll never understand your model for lifelong learning or for education.

If we leave the affections and the emotions out of the equation, I mean it just won't make sense and

this explains why the words joy and feeling, terms of emotion and

affection are terms that we see all over your older book titled Think the Life of the Mind and the Love of God.

In that book and Think you mentioned those two terms, Joy and Feeling, 110 times. Closely linking linking proper thinking with proper feeling.

That book Think is 12 and a half years old now, so I was eager to see how often you use those terms of joy and

feeling in this new book and they dominate even more. The words joy and feeling appear

357 times in your new book, Foundations

for Lifelong Learning, Education, and Serious Joy.

Those two terms. Joy and feeling are all over this new book to the point that you make this claim explicitly, quote,

some people think that emotions are marginal in the task of education.

We regard them as essential."

End quote.

Unpack this.

What essential role does joy and feeling play in Bible learning and in all of our learning?

This is so important, so, so important for understanding the nature of true education.

When I try to help people understand what we are doing at Bethlehem College and

Seminary or in my life. I regularly mention these six habits of mind and heart that

we're trying to build into the lives of our students or that I'm trying to build into my own life.

Both college students and seminary students and everybody else who will listen.

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