Prairie Hills Covenant Church

I can still remember my favorite class from high school. It was a Humanities class that was co-taught by a couple Social Studies teachers. It was a class only for Seniors, it required an application, and a minimum GPA. Those things were required because, for the class to work everyone in the class had to take it seriously and work hard. The class primarily consisted of reading classical works of social philosophy like; Plato’s “Republic,” Dante’s “Inferno,” Thomas More’s “Utopia,” and Aldus Huxley’s “Brave New World.” After reading each work the class would discuss and debate the ideas that had been presented. At our conferences I remember one of the teachers, Mr. Anderson, saying I had become the resident Bible Scholar for the class. I was 17. I didn’t think of myself as a scholar of anything, besides maybe sleeping until noon. When my mom pressed him on what he meant he explained that as our class discussed the books and their ideas, I would introduce material from the bible. At the time I was working very