I absolutely love these ideas, especially paying attention to beauty and reducing your needs.
Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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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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Lesson 16: Education
Read MORE: Lesson 16: EducationThe cultural battles in school board meetings across the nation reflect the tension between culture and technology we have been examining. Communities have always used their educational systems to teach their cultural values. The fights occur because we have significant…
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Lesson 15: Participate in Embodied Communities
Read MORE: Lesson 15: Participate in Embodied CommunitiesTechnology and culture offer different approaches to decision-making. Ideally, a community uses technology as a tool for solving certain kinds of problems. Sadly, in modern times, it has been applied to situations that demand more than statistical reasoning, leading to…
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Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
So forgiveness pre-requires understanding the mistakes of the past? here hear re this opposing this me-first, America-first, white-first, male-first approach>…