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Lesson 6: Truth and Righteousness
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Truth and RighteousnessAny lengthy discussion of truth probably contains a reference to Diogenes walking around Athens with a lamp to search for one honest man. Chances are that is about as far as it goes. Few realize the Greek thinker was a…
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Lesson 5: Truth and Digital Humanity
Read MORE: Lesson 5: Truth and Digital HumanityWe are just beginning to appreciate how much the huge databases modern technology makes available are affecting our thoughts about truth. Most of us are aware that merchants use them to sell their products. If we look for a pair…
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Lesson 4: Truth in the Gospel according to St. John
Read MORE: Lesson 4: Truth in the Gospel according to St. JohnIt does not take long to see that John’s Gospel speaks directly to our situation. In one of its critical scenes (John 18), Jesus and Pontius Pilate face off over the definition of truth. The confrontation could have taken place…
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Lesson 3: Truth and Political Correctness
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Truth and Political CorrectnessA few weeks ago, Father Jude reminded us that the given in a democracy is a reasonable, educated audience. “Absent that as the valid context, free speech in a democracy is just so much noise, at best, and, at worst,…
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Lesson 2: Truth and Facts
Read MORE: Lesson 2: Truth and FactsAt first, I was taken aback when people read last week’s lesson as a political statement. My intention was simply to point out that a healthy society depends on being able to trust that people are telling the truth. The…
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Lesson 1: Trust
Read MORE: Lesson 1: TrustThe present concern with fake news and a post-truth culture goes deeper than we usually acknowledge. I pulled out some quotes from Sissela Bok’s 1978 book, Lying, that I used when writing about trust decades ago. She wrote that “trust…
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Lesson 8: The Eighth Commandment
Read MORE: Lesson 8: The Eighth CommandmentNeither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor. Sisela Bok once wrote that truth is as essential as the air we breathe and the water we drink. She claimed if we cannot believe other people are telling the truth,…
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Lesson 9: Building a Modern Sabbath Lifestyle
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Building a Modern Sabbath LifestyleAs I was writing these lessons, my thoughts continually returned to the Company of Kirkridge. This small, mostly lay Christian community gathered people from across the Northeast twice a year to support one another. At one of those meetings, we…
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Lesson 14: I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14-19)
Read MORE: Lesson 14: I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14-19)John’s Passion primarily involves two long conversations, one at the Last the Supper (14-18) and the second in Pilate’s chambers (18:28-19:16). Together these make up 6 of his 21 chapters. Obviously, they are important. The first begins with Jesus’ proclaiming,…
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Lesson 9: The Truth Will Set You Free (John 7-8)
Read MORE: Lesson 9: The Truth Will Set You Free (John 7-8)John 7 and 8 picture Jesus constantly on the run, constantly hiding; as just about every group in his society, beginning with his own family, challenges his authority or even attempts to arrest and kill him. Then in the midst…
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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!