I absolutely love these ideas, especially paying attention to beauty and reducing your needs.
Weekly lessons in theology and public life • Since 2011
Tag: What We Have Learned from the Pandemic
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Lesson 5: Online Courage
Read MORE: Lesson 5: Online CourageIt was a strange week for the online Church. Last Monday night, the symposium that normally gathers in my home discussed the relationship between church and state over Zoom. As we were winding down, a number of the members asked…
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Lesson 4: A Faustian Bargain?
Read MORE: Lesson 4: A Faustian Bargain?As I write, the relationship between church and government is being maliciously manipulated. Popular public figures on both sides are using each other to get what they want. And, the deals being made threaten our souls. In order to understand…
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Lesson 3: Trust… In Government
Read MORE: Lesson 3: Trust… In GovernmentThe pandemic has brought into focus all sorts of societal problems. The last lesson discussed only the large number associated with Smithfield Foods. Most of these have been festering for decades. The question is whether the pandemic will bring them…
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Lesson 2: What We Have Learned
Read MORE: Lesson 2: What We Have LearnedIn a time when the Christian voice in the public conversation is babel and even cacophony, those struggling to follow Jesus must strive to be radically realistic. Jacques Ellul often describes this as being decisively honest. That would involve acknowledging…
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Fritz a wonderful lesson – and esp. reading has a flow I found encompassing. If only …….. yes we can…
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>…