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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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Lesson 7: False Prophets
Read MORE: Lesson 7: False ProphetsIf having good judgment includes weighing what others think, some standards are needed for doing this. There are all sorts of bad ideas out there, including strange conspiracy theories. This is nothing new. The Bible continually offers standards for judging…
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Lesson 6: Good Judgment is Communal
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Good Judgment is CommunalGood judgment when making decisions involves, to some degree, consideration of the common good. This does not negate the singularity of every situation but recognizes that everything is also related to everything else. A judge representing the people in a…
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Lesson 5: What Makes for Good Judgment
Read MORE: Lesson 5: What Makes for Good JudgmentI’ve been looking at the different meanings of judgment in hopes that they might offer some clues to helping us move beyond our society’s deep divisions. It is not that they make a different argument but that they come at…
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Lesson 4: Technology and Accountability
Read MORE: Lesson 4: Technology and AccountabilityLooking at judgment stems back to a conversation over twenty years ago. My son and I were writing something about technology and religion, which prompted me to ask my wife what she thought was our greatest loss from the tremendous…
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Lesson 3: Judgment as Accountability
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Judgment as AccountabilityAlthough the Bible defines judgment primarily as the ability to discern God’s will in different real-life circumstances, it also uses the term to evaluate how accountable we are in living this way. Most Christians associate the term with this second…
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Lesson 2: Biblical Judgment
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Biblical JudgmentMany want nothing to do with the church anymore because it is so judgmental. They remember religious leaders in their youth talking as if life is only preparation for a Last Judgment that decides whether you’ll spend the rest of…
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Lesson 1: Rethinking Judgment in a Divided Society
Read MORE: Lesson 1: Rethinking Judgment in a Divided SocietyAs I tried to decide on the next series, I kept asking myself what we need right now and what Christianity offers us. I asked with some anxiety, thinking we are in changing and often scary times. All sorts of…
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Lesson 19: Conclusion (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 19: Conclusion (Part 2)I found it hard to end this series because something new was in the news every week. Although I had written on technology and religion most of my life, I constantly encountered stuff I knew nothing about. Things are changing…
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Lesson 18: Conclusion (Part 1)
Read MORE: Lesson 18: Conclusion (Part 1)For decades, I have thought that all of our modern problems stem to some degree from the conflict between culture and technology—the two offer completely different understandings of human life and decision-making. Technology defines truth as the accumulation of information.…
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Lesson 17: Juridification
Read MORE: Lesson 17: JuridificationMany years ago, my son Franz and I did a study on juridification. Chances are you never heard of the term, as it doesn’t appear in many dictionaries. Juridificatiion is the attempt to codify into law every conceivable human transaction…
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I absolutely love these ideas, especially paying attention to beauty and reducing your needs.
Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…