Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust, trauma, and moral complexity—and what that means for how we prepare students to understand religion in the real world.
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What We Leave Out: Lived Religion and the Limits of Religious Literacy
Most approaches to religious literacy focus on beliefs, practices, and traditions. This work matters, but it is incomplete. Drawing on Calvary, this piece explores what happens when religion is encountered as lived experience—shaped by trust, trauma, and moral complexity—and what that means for how we prepare students to understand religion in the real world.