Tag: civility
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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October 10, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
The Christian heritage, its colonial overreach, its imperial politics, and its theology of dominion, justifies its claim in biblical canon. [WORD & WORLD, Theology for Christian Ministry, “Canon,” . . .
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September 30, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
As an involved observer I've come to believe that institutional education like institutional food is commercial, bland and unhealthy. Kids deserve better than canned education and . . .
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November 20, 2009 10:03 PM EST --
To presume that religion and civility can be, need to be, independent of each other is folly, false and fatally hurtful. Both have common aspects that are essential to common wellbeing; in these commonalities, . . .
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December 04, 2009 08:27 PM EST --
Hope in the future is a seed inherited from the past and existing in the moment. The reality we belong to is sandwiched between two non-existences, the past and the future. The past is memory, the future . . .
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May 22, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
If I were to suggest a group discussion topic it would be a Conversation on Evolution.
Free materials at www.secondenlightenment.org and www.evolution101.org can inform a vigorous . . .
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May 30, 2009 04:19 AM EDT --
Life's continuum is the evolved podium on which pro-life/ pro-choice differences can be reconciled. Earth's large-scale aborting of life, human and ecological, and the great anxiety over abortion now . . .
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August 16, 2009 02:04 AM EDT --
Every living cell carries in common life’s genetic “grammar”, including human cells. The cosmic codes of evolving “transubstantiation” are to Christian religion evidence . . .
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January 18, 2007 10:38 AM EST --
Religion and politics are not above the unseemly usage of orthodoxy in litmus-testing. Purity of orthodoxy can be a deceptive measure that bedevils popes and presidents alike. Pope John Paul II’s . . .
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . .
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . .
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October 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
The dominant ethics/politics in American culture, which came from Europe, have brought about the dead-end wasting of the global ecology/environment. American ecologies were pristine 600 years ago, not . . .
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December 01, 2007 03:47 AM EST --
In a representative form of government, the election of a person to a high office is to the purpose of serving the people and the greater public good. Public election is a sacred privilege, honor . . .
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March 22, 2009 02:03 AM EDT --
Because of fixation in "isms" we are broken in community and in fidelity. Healing and health come with growth; fixation in "isms" is the frustration of growth, health and healing. . . .
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April 05, 2009 05:36 AM EDT --
The frustration of Church and the chagrin of people are about old-era expectations and new-age imagination. Christianity may awaken to the Christian mission of love when it recognizes the disjunction . . .
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August 01, 2009 11:24 PM EDT --
“If the first generations that assimilated Darwin's thought were concerned with the origin of species, our own is concerned in an unprecedented way with the extinction of species and, above . . .
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November 10, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
The election cycle of 2006 might be interpreted as a mission rescuing American culture from drowning in a sea of distrust. The danger of asphyxiation continues and so does the need of respiratory help. . . .
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . .
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . .
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March 24, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
“All of us long for a Pentecostal church; a church in which the Spirit rules, and not the letter; a church in which understanding breaks down the fences we erect against each other. We are impatient . . .
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April 13, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think all CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS NOT ONLY DO NOT ACTIVELY EMBRACE EVOLUTION BUT THEY ACTUALLY DISDAIN IT, as evidenced in their total unwillingness to confront . . .
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