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>…
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Lesson 6: A Critique of Pro-Choice Arguments (Part 2) – Women’s Rights.
Read MORE: Lesson 6: A Critique of Pro-Choice Arguments (Part 2) – Women’s Rights.Last week I suggested Pro-Choice adherents appeal to real-life experiences and women’s rights. Over and over, I read women claiming that Roe gave women rights that the Supreme Court removed. Sometimes the rights are spelled out with regard to “My…
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Lesson 4: A Critique of the Pro-Life Argument (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 4: A Critique of the Pro-Life Argument (Part 2)Last week, I suggested the Po-Life argument makes me feel I am engaged in an abstract, academic, moral dissertation rather than an attempt to solve a real-life human problem. I find resorting to moral absolutes represents Kant more than Jesus.…
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Lesson 3: A Critique of the Pro-Life Argument (Part1)
Read MORE: Lesson 3: A Critique of the Pro-Life Argument (Part1)A Pro-Choice woman’s claim, “My body, my decision,” is hardly a complete ethical argument. Like many moral decisions we make in real life, it maintains that there is nothing better. In that sense, it is a rejection of the Pro-Life…
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Lesson 2: Let’s Start with Jesus
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Let’s Start with JesusIt’s pretty obvious abortion is the main issue dividing the Church in our time. The Body of Christ is split apart over a question that people acknowledge Jesus himself never addressed. This omission indicates that first-century people did not see…
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Lesson 1: “The Church“ and Abortion
Read MORE: Lesson 1: “The Church“ and Abortion“I decided to begin our series on abortion with an article written by Michael Cooper-White, the president emeritus of United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg and director of Lutheran Formation at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He also reports…
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Asking Too Much of Christianity?
Read MORE: Asking Too Much of Christianity?Paul suggested I do a few sessions on abortion. I’ll start next week. In the meantime, I decided to use the following Facebook post by Kerry Walters as a transition. Kerry was a very respected and beloved philosophy professor at…
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Lesson 10: Resurrection has Begun
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Resurrection has BegunSome of the most emotional and contentious debates I have had with other pastors and theologians have been about what exactly happened on Easter. Some feel there is no Christianity without a resurrection in which Jesus of Nazareth is literally…
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Lesson 9: Resurrection Raises Persons
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Resurrection Raises PersonsLet’s answer the two questions with which we began: Is there a life after death for me? Shall I be with my loved ones who have already died? In the New Testament, the question is whether those who have died…
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Lesson 8: Resurrection Makes All Right
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Resurrection Makes All RightI began this series by suggesting most of us associate resurrection with questions about whether there is life after death and if there is, whether we shall enjoy the presence of our beloved. I probably should have added that some…
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Lesson 7: Resurrection According to John
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Resurrection According to JohnThe entire gospel of John can be read as a discourse on what Jesus’ resurrection means for us. John’s Jesus of Nazareth bears little resemblance to that of the other three evangelists because it is nothing approaching a historical biography.…
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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.