Tag: social sustainability
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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May 22, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
If I were to suggest a group discussion topic it would be a Conversation on Evolution.
Free materials at www.secondenlightenment.org and www.evolution101.org can inform a vigorous . . .
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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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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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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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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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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March 28, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
Faith and reason together enable the evolution of self-reflective consciousness; their mutuality produces certitude and truth, neither of which is absolute, but both of which are experientially and . . .
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September 19, 2009 11:09 PM EDT --
The evolution of symbiosis is nature’s pattern and God’s plan . In every least fiber and fabric of life, sustainability is a process and product of symbiosis. Evidence of science . . .
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November 27, 2009 12:15 PM EST --
The “Tragedy of the Commons” comes to Iowa agriculture. The conspiracy of weather together with corn-crop monoculturing is a costly problem for farmers and nature. Late-maturing corn grain, . . .
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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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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 . . .
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