Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
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Tag: How Much Is Enough?
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Lesson 3: Cooperation and Sharing
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Cooperation and Sharing”Love your neighbor” could be rephrased “Masters, act as servants.” If we have power over others, we are to use it to care for them, not to take advantage of them. Thinking about this brought to mind two ethical observations…
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Lesson 8: Fairness
Read MORE: Lesson 8: FairnessThe pandemic immediately revealed it is not realistic for our society to base all its decisions on the economic market. As soon as the crisis hit, we began talking about the right for all of our citizens to food, housing,…
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Lesson 7: Justice in the Beloved Community
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Justice in the Beloved CommunityAs Dr. Martin Luther King maintained, you cannot deal with systemic racism without also addressing the economic and military problems smoldering in our society. All three exploded under the conditions of the present pandemic. Poor African and Hispanic neighborhoods were…
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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 15: Truth and Revelation
Read MORE: Lesson 15: Truth and RevelationThe Bible describes salvation as God’s attempt to save humanity from self-destruction and sees this, in part, as unveiling the truth that humans fail to discern. From beginning to end, two of the primary ways the scriptures explain our failure…
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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!