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 1: The Situation
Read MORE: Lesson 1: The SituationI really ended the series on world religions because I was getting all sorts of emails that implied it was a good subject, but somewhat irrelevant in the midst of the pandemic. Along with this, I kept feeling a need…
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Addendum: Sick Christianity
Read MORE: Addendum: Sick ChristianityAfter I posted a lesson entitled “Sick Religion” a few weeks ago, one of my best friends asked when I would have the courage to attack the real sick Christians among us. I was taken aback because I felt that…
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Lesson 13: Religious People, Not World Religions
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Religious People, Not World ReligionsI began this series wanting to share Barbara Brown Taylor’s experience about how the study of other world religions enhances the way we practice Christianity. Her findings were similar to my own, and I felt that she responded honestly to…
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Lesson 12: Religious Language During the Pandemic
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Religious Language During the PandemicJust a few quick words on religious language. Barbara Taylor Brown repeatedly speaks about the difficulty of understanding the religious language used by other world religions. Conversely, she observes once you do, you discover a lot about your own. My…
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Lesson 11: Healthy and Sick Religion
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Healthy and Sick ReligionThroughout her book Holy Envy, Barbara Brown Taylor cites Rabbi Jonathon Sachs to support her call to appreciate the insights and practices of other religious teachings and practices. Each time she did this, I found myself evaluating what I regard…
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Lesson 10: The Stranger
Read MORE: Lesson 10: The StrangerEvery time I think I am leading a discussion on Barbara Brown Taylor’s Holy Envy, I end up talking about the tribalism in our present society. For instance, last Monday night, our symposium began noting the things we admire in…
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Lesson 9: Holy Communion During the Pandemic
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Holy Communion During the PandemicWhile reading Holy Envy, I kept asking myself why I liked the book so much. It is obviously well written, easily read, but hardly profound theology. Instead, it is just as she promised, a simple report on how the experience…
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Lesson 8: Religious Truth
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Religious TruthTaylor obviously supports John Hick’s call for a Copernican revolution in theology that would place God at the center and Christianity among the great religions orbiting around God. She significantly restates this with Absolute Truth at the center and “people…
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Lesson 7: Christianity
Read MORE: Lesson 7: ChristianityOne of the most unsettling conversations in my lifetime took place around 20 years ago with a professor at our local Lutheran seminary. He reported his job was much more difficult, because his first-year students never had a college freshman…
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Lesson 6: Islam
Read MORE: Lesson 6: IslamMy Monday night symposium responded to Taylor’s Holy Envy by asking about the function of religion in a culture. It’s a complex question. On the one hand, religion supplies meaning and purpose for a society. In this role, it expresses…
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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.