Tag: morality
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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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 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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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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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 . . .
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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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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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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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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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June 25, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Needing answer is the question "what is a TRUE bureaucrat?" By convention, the TRUE bureaucrat is the zealot who stands by the Party, the Institution, with knee-jerk fidelity, even if it . . .
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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 . . .
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