Tag: culture
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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October 24, 2006 09:44 AM EDT --
If government is about social sustainability, sustainable usage of resources, concern for public interest, especially for the marginalized, educating the public toward cultural/social sustainability, etc., . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . .
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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 31, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
The hyped rationalism of the Enlightenment is misplaced as is the hyped fideism of imperial theology. Faith and reason - religion and science - cannot arbitrarily be disconnected from . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . .
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December 27, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
To the article “AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from”, which I published at this site, December 16, 2006, Jerome K. writes: “Ah, but will it make ice-cream? Sorry, but it . . .
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . .
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October 18, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
The developmental economic model of Western societies is based on the continued growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ascendancy up the corporate ladder. This model is now exposed to be ecologically . . .
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September 03, 2006 06:09 AM EDT --
All religious consciousness like all life emerges from common ground. By reason of evolving commonalities, good faith emergence is enabled. Einstein's mind-expanding intuition that . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:20 AM EST --
I hope and expect that the democrats will win big time this election cycle. But I won't be celebrating if they do. I am a lifelong democrat but moral decency, common sensitivity . . .
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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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December 22, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
A persisting "heresy" (choice) of Christianity in general, has been to institutionalize and over-emphasize representational reality and alienate the community of believers from . . .
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