Tag: history
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . . more
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July 28, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
The joined offensive of dominion theology and imperial politics is lethal. Indeed, by culture and genetic hard-wiring, male domination continues to be a mortal threat to personal/social wellbeing. The . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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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, . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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, . . . more
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February 11, 2007 08:55 AM EST --
Ours is an epic time marked by wars between religion and civility, but also a time of the apocalyptical enlightenment of ignorance and arrogance. Each of us has a capacity to be irreligious and uncivil; . . . more
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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 . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Earth is in crisis. Nation’s are in crisis. Churches are in crisis. Education is in crisis. Humankind is cornered now and forced to react to crises mostly of its own making in order to stem its own . . . more
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July 18, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
The Knights Templar was the pope’s army, which fought the wars of the Crusades. This episode in history is with profound repercussions to global civilizations and the Roman Catholic Church, even . . . more
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March 16, 2008 02:55 AM EDT --
As to the status of women in cultural history, there is indeed a long train of philosophical/ theological thinking back into the deep past of consciousness by which thought advances the ascendancy of . . . more
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April 09, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Answer: Because the Religious Right ignores and discredits the Catechism of Cosmic Religion.
What is the Catechism of Cosmic Religion? Nature is the universal, common, cosmic catechism. . . . more
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March 21, 2008 04:01 AM EDT --
Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council recognized that humankind suffers spiritually and culturally from profound depression and a destructive social disorder, what I call the RELIGIOUS PARALYSIS . . . more
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September 23, 2006 06:30 AM EDT --
I'm also sick and tired of doom and gloom articles! Sure there are problems but there are remedies. This pair of articles is about identifying cause/effect relationships of certain . . . more
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September 05, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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September 10, 2006 06:14 PM EDT --
Evolution changes everything. True. But in the processes of change there are constants that secure identity, continuity and interdependency. The ultimate constant is LOVE, the encompassing . . . more
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