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Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: Faith Hope and Love
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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 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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Lesson 18: Environment
Read MORE: Lesson 18: EnvironmentCertainly a modern Christian narrative must include our relationship to the environment. Right now, the conversation addressing that issue in our society and the Church rages around the argument about humanity’s role in climate change. Like so much in our…
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Lesson 17: Faith, Hope, and Love In Decision Making
Read MORE: Lesson 17: Faith, Hope, and Love In Decision MakingIt’s fine to speak of Christianity being unconditional love all the way down. It’s exhilarating to read St. Isaac of Syria write of even Hell being filled with God’s love. However, it is frustrating when various Christian groups totally disagree…
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Lesson 2: Truth and Facts
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Truth and FactsAt first, I was taken aback when people read last week’s lesson as a political statement. My intention was simply to point out that a healthy society depends on being able to trust that people are telling the truth. The…
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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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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!