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Thinking Aloud: A gradual "fall"?
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Friday, May 1, 2009. RJS, a working scientist whose posts at the Jesus Creed blog I've found very helpful, wrote in a post entitled Science and the Sacred. Although I waver at times on the importance of the Fall as an historical event. And who shall deliver us from this body of death? Which addresses a number of key issues concerning this thesis not addressed here. In that essay I think I have many of the need...
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Thinking Aloud: Books Guiding an Urgent Journey
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Books Guiding an Urgent Journey. Here are a few books I have found very worthwhile of late. The Clashing Worlds of Economics and Faith. This book by a veteran professor of economics and Mennonite leader outlines a practical vision of Christian economic lifestyle today, and argues that the best that the world's economic systems offer is none too good. By Reta Halteman Finger. Whom I thi...
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Thinking Aloud: The Politics of Jesus
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Monday, April 20, 2009. The Politics of Jesus. Have you ever had a nagging suspicion that the story of Jesus you may have grown up hearing was not quite the story that was originally meant? As best I understand it, the story these scholars tell goes like this. But he didn't. And this choice, it is argued, changed the course of history. Instead, he said, ".the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve,...
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Thinking Aloud: August 2010
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. What About Paul and Women? A Honduran promoter of cultural change, seeking to address the horrible oppression and abuse of women that permeates Honduran society, took aim in a recent Facebook post at Paul of Tarsus, who penned these infamous words some 2,000 years ago:. Does it take adequate account of the situational context in which Paul wrote in the 1st C? 1) We may judge and condemn...
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Thinking Aloud: Ancient Tactics for Social Change
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Ancient Tactics for Social Change. An Internet discussion group has recently been discussing how to avert the spectre of Socialism in an impoverished country. Here are a few thoughts of my own on that topic. Ironically, it seems to me that a fair measure of "socialism" is needed to curb "Socialism," defined very informally, for the purposes of this post, as follows. . The early Chris...
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Thinking Aloud: Suppressed hopes rising
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination. Quoted in Luke Gascho, Creation Care: Keepers of the Earth. It's a race to stay alive, baby, it's lawyers tax and steel. Til the life that you are living is the thing you never feel". Mark Heard, " Long Way Down. Thanks for your reply on my blog regarding my entry at the Jesus Creed blog. March 27, 2010 at 12:21 PM. March 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM.
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Thinking Aloud: Sowing in Tears...Reflections on Van Jones' Resignation
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Monday, September 7, 2009. Sowing in Tears.Reflections on Van Jones' Resignation. Van Jones, who resigned as Special Advisor on Green Jobs over questions about past political involvements and his choice of vocabulary in describing Republicans, is the latest victim of what Beau Friedlander. Jones wrote in his resignation letter:. 1) Nothing ever justified the rage, because everything is really OK. Do not be overcom...
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Thinking Aloud: February 2011
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. What I think environmentalism's number one priority should be. We urgently need a radically sustainable alternative development pattern, characterized by low consumption, local production, and cooperative economics. And we need a mass political movement to remove obstacles to it, especially at the municipal level. 2) GHG emissions which cause global warming would come to a halt. Coa...
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Thinking Aloud: The Bible: Friend or Foe?
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Monday, March 29, 2010. The Bible: Friend or Foe? On another forum someone wrote: "What I cannot comprehend is how this collection of fables and myths [the Bible] has evolved into the infallible word of a creator" and cited Nahum 1 (among others) as an ethically deficient text. But we must not read a text like this in isolation from the larger ongoing biblical conversation. Balancing the rage of Nahum 1 is the...
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Thinking Aloud: March 2010
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Exploring evolution, biblical faith, the pursuit of peace and justice, and the environment. Monday, March 29, 2010. The Bible: Friend or Foe? On another forum someone wrote: "What I cannot comprehend is how this collection of fables and myths [the Bible] has evolved into the infallible word of a creator" and cited Nahum 1 (among others) as an ethically deficient text. But we must not read a text like this in isolation from the larger ongoing biblical conversation. Balancing the rage of Nahum 1 is the...
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