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More Yoder on Faithfulness and Tradition
I’ve been working through a number of John Howard Yoder’s texts in the last week, reading what he had to
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Two (Possible) Roles of Religion In A Global World
I’m currently writing a methods paper, laying out how I will conduct my field research among Quaker congregations. In the section where I’m dealing with culture and the role of the church
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Augustine’s Prayer for Students
Hear my prayer, O Lord; let not my soul fail under Thy discipline, nor let me fail in uttering to Thee Thy
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Unlikely Quaker “Heroes?”
Did you know Annie Oakley was a Quaker? How about Joan Baez and James Dean? Well they were along with a few
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Dorothy Day & Changing the World
What we would like to do is to change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for
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Wendell Berry on The Earth as Other
The earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of and what we live from, and we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it.
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Karl Barth and the Mystery of God the Creator
What the meaning of God the Creator is and what is involved in the work of creation, is itself not less hidden from us men [ sic ] than everything else that is contained in the
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Kierkegaard on Solitude
It is an awful satire, and an epigram on the materialism of our modern age, that nowadays the only use that can be made of solitude is imposing it as a penalty, as jail.
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Lindbeck on The Intepretive Schemes of Religion
Religions are seen as comprehensive interpretative schemes, usually embodied in myths or narratives and heavily ritualized, which structure human experience and understanding of self and world. Not every telling of these cosmic stories is
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Mission Precedes Ecclesiology
To be authentic, mission must be thoroughly theocentric. It begins in Gods redemptive purpose and will be completed when that purpose is fulfilled. The God-given identity of the church thus arises from
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Zizek, the Decalogue and The Problem with (too much) Liberation
It is…crucial to bear in mind the interconnection between the Decalogue (the traumatically imposed Divine Commandments) and its modern obverse, the celebrated ‘human rights’. As the experience of our post-political liberal-permissive
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The Wisdom of Youth
“Why is it that you have to be at least thirty-five years old to run for President?” asked the Toluca Lake resident. Matthew proposed a constitutional change that would let kids vote and
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Yoder – Beyond Legitimate Ends
What Jesus renounced is not first of all violence, but rather the compulsiveness of purpose that leads the strong to violate the dignity of others. The point is not that one can attain all