Tag: social sustainability
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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, . . . 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, 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 . . . more
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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 . . . 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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November 22, 2006 05:08 AM EST --
In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the . . . more
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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 . . . 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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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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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . 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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September 20, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
If she's said it once she's said it a thousand times, the incomparable value of learning! At age 75 my wife Felicitas is a retired teacher known to hundreds of her students as . . . more
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February 24, 2007 03:31 AM EST --
Sexuality provides the emmissive and receptive polarities that cause communication to happen. Sexuality is about the dialog of love, about mutuality, self-giving and personal fulfillment. Communication . . . 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 09, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
One thousand years ago, Imperial Roman Catholicism was in the beginning stages of its wars of Crusades against the Islamic Middle East. The wars of Crusades dragged on for hundreds of years, bankrupting . . . more
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July 07, 2007 01:43 AM EDT --
Dear Holy Father:
Religious culture needs to reveal to consciousness the essential connections of Prevision and Provision in the Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis if reason and faith, science and religion, . . . more
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