Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: Christian community
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Lesson 17: Peace- Sign of the Disarmed Heart
Read MORE: Lesson 17: Peace- Sign of the Disarmed HeartAbout half way through the chapter, Chittister wrote that being at peace gives “the courage to evaluate what is patently wrong but never open for discussion.” As soon as I read her words, a brash comment made by an executive…
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Lesson 16: The Way of Conversion
Read MORE: Lesson 16: The Way of ConversionI was recently at a conference where a female Roman Catholic scholar who had worked in ecumenical relationships for decades revealed she was finally beginning to appreciate that the most important first step in healing our broken Church was coming…
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Lesson 15: New Christian Communities
Read MORE: Lesson 15: New Christian CommunitiesI promised to share some of my friends’ understanding of modern Christian community. Kerry Walters is a retired philosophy professor whose words often appear in the Huffington Post. I think his following Facebook post speaks for itself. I’d be interested…
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Lesson 14: Stability
Read MORE: Lesson 14: StabilityIf my first attraction to the Benedictine Rule was its hospitality, my second was its stability. A pastor easily felt the impact of the mobile technology at first offered and then demanded. Children leaving town for college, exciting vocations, and…
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Lesson 13: Obedience
Read MORE: Lesson 13: ObedienceHow in the world do you handle obedience in today’s world? Supposedly, freedom means we respect no person’s authority to tell us what to do. Yet we are continually forced to comply with the demands of the system. And we…
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Lesson 12: Hospitality
Read MORE: Lesson 12: HospitalityI first read the Benedictine Rule at the very beginning of my ministry. I remember being impressed that the porter was to treat every one who knocked at the monastery’s door as if they might be Christ himself and that…
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Lesson 11: Giftedness
Read MORE: Lesson 11: GiftednessIn 2000, Robert Putnam published Bowling Alone. It has quickly become a classic for understanding modern American community. His thesis is that our nation has lost our sense of the common good, because technology inherently promotes radical individualism. He used the…
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Chapter 10: Leisure
Read MORE: Chapter 10: LeisureThe media greeted the 70s with more than the usual number of articles on what the future held for the next ten years. As a young pastor, I read as many as I could thinking they might indicate how I…
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Lesson 9: Common Housing Movement
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Common Housing MovementI am going to take time off from Chittister to acknowledge the wide variety of responses I have received to the recent lessons. Obviously now, as in the past, there have always been efforts to find better forms of community.…
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Lesson 8: Work
Read MORE: Lesson 8: WorkThe classic definition of economy was the management of the family or community that makes sure everyone is treated with dignity and has enough. We find ourselves in trouble because the model of the economy, that served us well in…
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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>…
An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!