Tag: politics
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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August 27, 2006 06:03 AM EDT --
In the face of doubt it is sometimes said, "I am of two minds on this". The recognition of two minds makes communication and the discovery of newness possible. With respect . . .
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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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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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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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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 04, 2006 05:04 AM EDT --
Who is a Catholic Christian? First, let me create a context by observing that what Karl Rove & Company are doing to politicize religion in America is emblematic of the abuse of religion . . .
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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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; . . .
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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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