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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: Christian conversation
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Lesson 13: Resolving Differences
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Resolving DifferencesThroughout the pandemic, I constantly have been asked two questions: “What can we learn to make things better when things get back to normal?” and “What can we do to facilitate a healing dialogue between the two warring political or…
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Lesson 25: The Christian Voice
Read MORE: Lesson 25: The Christian VoiceAfter much discussion, I have decided to give in and admit talking about the common story of Christianity is not helpful. As many of you have pointed out, there are just too many incredibly divergent claims out there. Instead, I…
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Lesson 24: Getting Real
Read MORE: Lesson 24: Getting RealLast week I wrote that a proper understanding of faith, hope, and love provides a common story for the Church by acknowledging our real life connections to community, nature, time, and place. I quickly got a marvelous critique from Lupe…
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Lesson 23: Connections
Read MORE: Lesson 23: ConnectionsThe last two chapters in the book examine further how technique has damaged culture by removing things from their real-life contexts, how faith, hope, and love correct that for the Church, and how this enables the Church to offer much…
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Lesson 18: Christian Love
Read MORE: Lesson 18: Christian LoveThe seventh chapter of Faith, Hope, and Love in the Technological Society maintains that Christianity is all about God’s love overcoming the violence of this world and that everything else is commentary. It also asserts we are already in a…
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Lesson 16: Hopes and Fears
Read MORE: Lesson 16: Hopes and FearsPeople are really worrying about the future. That’s what I found in all my classes from the high school, the young adults, the three more mature, and the online ones. When we discussed hope, all spoke in one way or…
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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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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 8: Conversation and Dialogue
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Conversation and DialogueWe have come to the last of the five reoccurring themes that I found when hastily rereading the documents of Vatican II. Although my intention was simply to refresh my memory, I was pleasantly surprised to find the five could…
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Lesson 3: The Servant Church
Read MORE: Lesson 3: The Servant ChurchI am going to lay out two dominant narratives that the Church has used to understand and identify herself in the past 500 years. More importantly, I am then going to suggest a new narrative offered by Vatican II. I…
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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!