This past December, we attended a Christmas Eve service at a church in Southeast Asia. In the midst of the singing and preaching, they presented a drama featuring Herod and his court as he dealt with reports from the Wise.
Societies advance through the creation, expression, and evaluation of alternative ideas. Therefore, for almost a millennium, we have had universities where ideas and discoveries are born and different perspectives are debated in “marketplaces of ideas” or “learning communities.” Yet there.