Tag: faith
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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November 06, 2009 08:50 PM EST --
Nuclear family is the avatar of communal authenticity, harmony. The schism of female/ male mutuality corrupts authenticity, civil culture. The family paradigm supposes parental mutuality/ authority; . . .
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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 28, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI has relationship problems not just with Islam but also with his Church. The circular skirmishing of Vatican I polemicists scarcely obfuscates their real purpose. Case in point . . .
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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 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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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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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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October 31, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
Self-consciousness and self-reflection are powerful virtues enabling self-advancement, but they also enable self-deception and advance bad judgment in habits of ego-culture. The proclivity of self-deception . . .
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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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November 30, 2006 05:04 PM EST --
“…as we survey the principle features of [the] post-Einsteinian world…step by step we [move] into the Hebrew prophet’s eschatological world. A universe bound fast to grim, timeless . . .
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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 03, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
The arrogance of absolutism leads to all manner of perversion. Revelations about people in the US Government now boiling to the surface are not unprecedented. The perversity of absolutism, . . .
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October 16, 2009 09:25 PM EDT --
Fiction and fideism may be more popular than fact and faith, but the choosing of the first over the latter is with very different consequence. The evidence from today’s perspective . . .
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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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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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March 09, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
A Second Reformation is at the cusp of happening now, and with it, reconciliation and reconstruction. This moment of grace should be embraced by all churches, not shunned. http://www.luthersem.edu/word&world/EditorialWin2009.asp . . .
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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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