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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Lesson 11: Responses to the Abortion Lesson
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Responses to the Abortion LessonMy attempt to come up with some guidelines for moving beyond the abortion stalemate did not work very well. I received three kinds of responses. The first felt my effort to be carefully neutral ended up being irrelevant. Lupe, who…
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Lesson 12: Racism and Sexuality
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Racism and SexualityIt made sense, even though it shook me up, when James Davison Hunter observed race has replaced abortion as the great divider since he wrote Cultural Wars in 1991. It rings true because the media daily reports efforts to support…
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Lesson 13: Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Black Lives Matter or All Lives MatterI think I have been resisting this lesson. Being very active in the civil rights movement most of my life and raising a Haitian son, I was afraid I was too emotionally involved to trust my understanding of what is…
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Lesson 13: Gay or Straight
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Gay or StraightI was the kind of pastor with whom people shared their inner, often hidden lives. Early on, I became aware that almost everyone struggles with sexual issues in one way or another. I also came to realize people’s public personas…
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Lesson 14: Trust
Read MORE: Lesson 14: TrustI decided to do this series when so many of my friends were in a quandary about talking to people on the other side of our deep cultural divide. Many could find no way to have decent conversations with lifetime…
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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.