wonderful thoughts from the Pope, intellectually coherent and practically relevant and doable IMO
Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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Lesson 6: Overcoming Technological Violence
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Overcoming Technological ViolenceRebuilding culture is not something that is consciously done. You don’t gather people to design a culture. It naturally develops over many years as guidance for a group’s life. In an oral society, culture is the lifestyle and customs resulting…
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Lesson 5: Rebuilding Culture
Read MORE: Lesson 5: Rebuilding CultureI’ve been implying that we must build new or rebuild old cultural values lost by relying on technological systems. This assumes a very loose definition of culture as shared meanings and purposes that bind us together and guide our social…
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Lesson 4: Social Effects of Technology
Read MORE: Lesson 4: Social Effects of TechnologyI’ve been arguing that modern technology brings us many marvelous comforts and capabilities but also erodes traditional culture’s benefits. When people use technology to solve all their problems, culture becomes irrelevant. Let me go over some of the things lost.…
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Lesson 3: Unrestrained Technology
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Unrestrained TechnologyTraditional culture provided all sorts of guidelines for relating to our neighbors. Some of you have questioned if there was ever such a thing. You argue I should recognize the US has never had a common story. In the past,…
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Lesson 2: Definitions
Read MORE: Lesson 2: DefinitionsI think I got ahead of myself. Responses to the first lesson indicate I should define what I mean by culture and technology. In the past, a community was associated with a culture. That culture was not something consciously built…
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Lesson 1: Technology and Culture
Read MORE: Lesson 1: Technology and CultureA member of our Science, Technology, and Society group from South Korea mused that he belonged to three different cultures during his lifetime. The first was the traditional Korean in which he grew up, the second was American after the…
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Lesson 10: Summary of the Future Series
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Summary of the Future SeriesMany work for peace, justice, and love. Karen asked if Christian faith offered optimism that is worth the time and effort. I think she was expressing the frustration a lot of us are experiencing. We felt we were overcoming our…
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Lesson 9: Hope for Love
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Hope for LoveThe third major biblical vision of the future is the promise of love. Let’s use Martin Luther King’s teachings to examine it. He specifically relates hope to the modern situation in the USA. In his “I Have a Dream” speech,…
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Lesson 8: Hope for Justice
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Hope for JusticeA second vision of the future prevalent throughout the Bible is God’s promise of justice. It’s important to understand we are talking about justice not law. Ours is a society of law that tries to provide fairness and equality in…
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Lesson 7: Hope for Peace
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Hope for PeaceMost of the Bible was written to people who did not seem to have a future. Faith in God offered hope against hope (Romans 4:18). That faith was informed by stories that often included promises about the future in which…
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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…