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 14: Pro-Life
Read MORE: Lesson 14: Pro-LifeLet’s look more closely at the Pro-Life position in order to better critique it. This group is founded on the longstanding conviction that all human individuals regardless of physical or mental health have a fundamental and equal worth. This includes…
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Lesson 13: Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Read MORE: Lesson 13: Pro-Life and Pro-ChoiceReviving any creative conversation about abortion has to begin with appreciating the two positions that presently divide the Church. The Pro-Life group champions a concept of eternal law that maintains the sacred nature of all human life. Believing life begins…
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Lesson 12: Why This Obsession With Abortion?
Read MORE: Lesson 12: Why This Obsession With Abortion?Shortly after I was ordained I was surprised when a fishing buddy compared himself to another friend with the words, “He is not a real Christian. He believes in abortion.” I was speechless. I had never previously heard my friend…
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Lesson 11: So What?
Read MORE: Lesson 11: So What?My son likes to add an addendum titled, “So What?” to academic work. I felt compelled to do that after so many respondents reported they agree completely that money controls our society but are not sure that we can do…
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Lesson 10: Market Totalitarianism
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Market TotalitarianismI decided to begin this series with industrial capitalism, because I thought it would be the least emotional of the issues Christians should be addressing in the present democratic society. Right off the bat, Lupe challenged me by reporting she…
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Lesson 9: Regulation
Read MORE: Lesson 9: RegulationI have been assuming that the Christian voice in our secular democratic society must deal with reality, and in our time and place that is the capitalistic economic system. That does not mean that capitalism is a Christian program. Even…
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Lesson 8: Technology and International Corporations
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Technology and International CorporationsOne of the goals of the Christian voice is to uncover the truth that society ignores. For instance, it should acknowledge the role modern technology and international corporations play in monetary wealth becoming the only standard of our culture. The…
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Lesson 7: Sharing Risk
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Sharing RiskLet’s examine the Church’s voice in our democratic society that many think presently champions an inverse of Christian values. Last week I suggested that entails asking what the Church has to say when economics is allowed to trump every other…
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Lesson 6: How Did We Get Here?
Read MORE: Lesson 6: How Did We Get Here?About fifty years ago, Harvey Cox wrote an article entitled something like “The Free Market as God.” I remember participating in one rather intellectual discussion of it. That was about it. Things have changed. Nowadays all sorts of people are…
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Lesson 5: Wealth
Read MORE: Lesson 5: WealthMy intention is to examine some of the peculiar issues Christianity faces in our present democratic society. I planned to start with the complicated role industrial capitalism plays and was re-reading an email from Lupe Andrade in preparation. Before starting…
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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.