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>…
Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
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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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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: 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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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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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 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 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 5: Words
Read MORE: Lesson 5: WordsEven the ancients understood the essential role language plays for humanity. Genesis 1 acknowledges a rather sophisticated grasp of this when it portrays God using speech to create all things. It appears to build on the realization that speaking is…
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Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic Age
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic AgeScholars usually speak of 3 momentous stages of language: the spoken, written, and electronic word. Each has distinctive characteristics that most of us readily recognize. Each has consequences for religion as well as culture. In the age of the spoken…
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Lesson 7: Faith, Hope, and Love
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Faith, Hope, and LoveOne of the major challenges confronting the Church is how we should be proclaiming the Gospel in this new electronic age. Last week, I suggested the first big step to resolving this question is gathering believers in person-to-person conversations. To…
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An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!
yes we need to forgive our leaders yet make sure they do the right thing – which they aren’t.