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Today marked the second (and final, although I'm not sure anything in my class is really "final") of my Sunday school classes on Islam. We also touched on a number of key points about Baptist identity, which will make for a nice segue into what happens next: I'm going to take a break from teaching my class for the summer, while our pastor offers a summer Sunday school class on "Being Baptist". I'll be attending his class for its duration, along with as many of the other regular attendees in my own class as wish to.

In today's class, I went over the five pillars of Islam, but also emphasized that doing so no more gives a real sense of what Islam means to its followers, than learning some creeds or even reading the Bible would give an impression of what Christianity is.... READ MORE.