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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and Tradition
Read MORE: Lesson 4: The Loss of Community and TraditionThe online comments have represented the two primary responses I have been getting to the first chapters in the book. The first, voiced by Lupe, Paul, and Don, rather powerfully express how people have used God’s Word to oppress and…
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Lesson 3: Online Christian Communities
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Online Christian CommunitiesI always shudder when theologians predict we shall all be worshipping in online churches before long. I imagine they are trying to show that they are on the cutting edge of history. However, I doubt if they have given much…
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Lesson 2: Technology as a Biblical Power
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Technology as a Biblical PowerLast week, I described our life in a technological society that integrates tools and techniques in sophisticated all-pervasive systems. Although these systems have brought us tremendous benefits, they have also created an environment that pretty much demands compliance with their…
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Lesson 1: Technology
Read MORE: Lesson 1: TechnologyOne of the theses of our book is that modern science-based technology has created a society that offers a new kind of challenge to Christian thought and practice. In the past, we thought of technology primarily as using tools to…
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Introduction: The Blessed Ambiguity of Words
Read MORE: Introduction: The Blessed Ambiguity of WordsThis series follows some of the thoughts in Faith, Hope, and Love in the Technological Society, the book that my son, Franz, and I recently wrote. One of its main theses is that God speaks to us when members of…
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Introduction: A Summary of the Book
Read MORE: Introduction: A Summary of the BookI plan to begin the lessons based on the book Faith, Hope, and Love in the Technological Society next week. Of course, I hope that you will buy a copy for $25 from Amazon (just click on the book; a…
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Introduction: A Few Preliminary Thoughts
Read MORE: Introduction: A Few Preliminary ThoughtsI have three face-to-face study groups, all of which begin in October, so I am going to mark some time before starting the next online series. Because I plan to use the book my son and I recently published in…
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Lesson 20: Church and State
Read MORE: Lesson 20: Church and StateLet’s end this series by reminding ourselves there is no one biblical position on how God’s people should relate to the political state. Beyond that, the Bible offers no approved Christian relationship. Instead, we find a variety of perspectives that…
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Lesson 19: The Political and Technological Environments
Read MORE: Lesson 19: The Political and Technological EnvironmentsFather Jude caught my attention when he described the State as being the environment in which the Church exists. He reported that he framed his argument this way in order to make clear the Church has to play by the…
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Lesson 18: Freedom of Religion
Read MORE: Lesson 18: Freedom of ReligionI think the widely ignored freedom of religion movement indicates the problem Christianity faces in a modern democracy. People in my circles thought the advocates were a paranoid minority of various church bodies. Now those paranoids control our government. Let…
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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…