Why people don’t come to church
December 8, 2010
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This fine little video on YouTube, “Reasons (why people don’t come to church)” is a must watch!
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Finding the spiritual core of environmentalism
December 8, 2010
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“We’ve become detached from nature,” Maathai told me recently during a trip to New York City. “And as you move away from nature, you become lost.”
Bishop Gene Robinson on what the Bible says about homosexuality
December 8, 2010
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Part of the community whose voice needs to be considered, is that of the Tradition – that is, what has been said over the years about any given passage of scripture. We, in the present time, are not the only ones who have struggled with these passages, and our own understanding needs to be informed by the larger community of the faithful in the past.
Myth of American religious exceptionalism
December 8, 2010
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. . . the idea of a special, even divine, role for America can be fairly slippery. At its best, it has inspired Americans to hold themselves to a high moral standard, serving as exemplar to other nations. At its worst, it becomes a license for rationalizing away morality itself.
Heart set upon heaven
December 8, 2010
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Say not, “We are unable to set our own hearts on heaven; this must be the work of God only.” Though God be the chief disposer of your hearts, yet, next under him, you have the greatest command of them yourselves. Though without Christ you can do nothing, yet under him you may do much, and must, or else it will be undone, and yourselves undone through your neglect.
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