Our next stop in the Cathedral of Learning was the Polish room.
This room is small, but as you can see, it’s set up very differently from “normal” classrooms that we American’s are used to. It has a table in the middle with chairs around it.
What this tells me is that the focus is on discussion. Talk about being approachable – I can see doubts being expressed and questions being raised. I can hear heated debate over issues – yet a common quest for knowledge. This isn’t someone talking at students and transferring information. This approach is different. It makes learning very relevant.
This is probably something this guy would have appreciated:
Also in this room is this:
It’s a replica Jagiellonian globe.
The lesson from here – being approachable is taking a risk. It’s taking a risk that we might not know the answer, but we can explore together. Very relational isn’t it?
Laced up Lutheran 
Love it! God in Jesus moved from tabernacle to table. That’s more or less how we (speaking personally) practise our faith today. As you know the early Church knew something about that, in fact they practised it for almost 300 years… Blessings.
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Great comments and insight. And yes, I think it’s something we could have more of. Especially since we often talk about how relational God is.
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PS. At one stage Luther (tongue in cheek) favoured that idea too, but he was a man of his time, plus he was nervous of anabaptist excesses as I recall.
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Luther was a complicated person who lived in paradox. You can see this throughout Lutheran theology. We are saint and sinner. Theology of the cross. etc. Not surprising that he liked the idea, but had issues with it. Thanks.
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