Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it more strongly than that. I do not like Reformation Sunday, period.
Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.