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Lesson 11: Hope (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 11: Hope (Part 2)Last week, I critiqued the picture of the Technium that one of the main characters in Dan Brown’s latest novel, Origin, predicts will begin in 2050. The Technium would be the perfect setting for a post-truth age. There is no…
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Lesson 10: Hope
Read MORE: Lesson 10: HopeA friend suggested Dan Brown’s latest novel, Origin, deals with science challenging religion much as our book does. When I took a look, it was obvious Edmund Kirsch, one of the main protagonists, is based on the futurist Ray Kurzweil whom…
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Lesson 9: Faith (Part 2)
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Faith (Part 2)Last week I described faith as trusting the God found in the common story proclaimed by the Christian community. I boiled down that Gospel to God’s promise to be active in history, rescuing the creation from self-destruction and especially, humanity…
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Lesson 8: Faith
Read MORE: Lesson 8: FaithOne way to read the Enlightenment Project is to see it placing decision making in the hands of individual persons rather than established authorities. Integral to this is investing power in knowledge tested against reality and experience instead of laws…
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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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Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic Age
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Christian Words in the Electronic AgeScholars usually speak of 3 momentous stages of language: the spoken, written, and electronic word. Each has distinctive characteristics that most of us readily recognize. Each has consequences for religion as well as culture. In the age of the spoken…
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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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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.