The Learning Creature

With All Due Respect

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Humans are learning creatures. We spend our whole lives picking up new skills, improving them, and finding new areas of knowledge to explore.

This week Michael and Megan think through the Biblical implications of this, and along the way are joined by Zeeshan LaalDin. Zeeshan is a Project Officer with Anglican Aid. He will be delivering a keynote address at the upcoming Common Knowledge Conference, which looks at the role of education in eradicating global poverty.

Finally, our hosts watch the 2005 TV adaptation of Thomas Hughes' classic 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days.

• (01:52) - For Arguments Sake
• (19:47) - Be Our Guest
• (42:57) - Through the Wardrobe

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