Christian doom metal or outside teaching? Priests teach very differently

Kristen Doom Metal or Outdoor Learning? Priests Teach Differently

There are no specific requirements for how priests conduct confirmation preparation.

There is a curriculum for confirmation preparation, but like in elementary school, it is up to the priests themselves to arrange the teaching and plan how they will carry it out in real life. In today's article, it is reported that a priest in Stilling Church plays satanic black metal during confirmation preparation. However, this is not correct, as it is actually Christian doom metal. We apologize for the error, which has been corrected.

It is widely different how priests guide confirmands through Christianity, the hymnal, and the Bible, before they profess their faith in the church, as many teenagers do in these weeks.

While some priests focus on a form of outdoor learning, others have a more alternative approach to confirmation preparation.

In Stilling Church, for example, the priest plays Christian doom metal when Grundtvig and Kingos hymns are sung and understood.

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> There should be different approaches, because there are different children and young people.

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> Pernille Vigsø Bagge, chair, priest association

In Næsbjerg and Øse Parishes near Varde, the priest has made crucifixes from scrap metal together with his confirmands and an artist. And in Esbjerg, the confirmands at the priest's Zions Church have had visits from a monk, where they have been able to try lying in a coffin.

And as long as confirmands learn the essentials - such as the Lord's Prayer and hymns - Birgitte Stoklund trusts that the priests will do the right thing.

She is the rector of the Folkekirkens Knowledge and Education Center, which among other things trains priests in how to handle confirmation preparation.

- Of course, there may be some who go to extremes. But I think we have well-educated and skilled priests who think about how to solve the problem and reflect on it.

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Free Framework is Necessary

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There is nothing wrong with priests taking a different approach to teaching. It is the individual priest who has responsibility for the preparation - and there are very few requirements for how they should do it.

And it should continue to be. That is the opinion of Pernille Vigsø Bagge, who is chair of the Priest Association.

- That is the best way to ensure that the most possible students benefit from the education we are giving them. There should be different approaches, because there are different children and young people.

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Expert: Priests should speak the young people's language

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Not even Brian Arly Jacobsen, religious sociologist at the University of Copenhagen, thinks that there should be or can be changes in the fact that priests have methodological freedom when it comes to teaching confirmands.

But priests can think outside the box, he says.

- It is clear that there are some students who get more out of one form of confirmation education than another form. But if you want to reach the young, you are forced to speak their language and use some of the tools that the young are accustomed to.

The Church expects around 44,000 young people to be confirmed this year. Last year, it was approximately 64 percent of the young people in confirmation age who were confirmed, according to figures from the Church. And that is the lowest percentage since the Church began measuring it in 2005.

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