Showing posts with label discernment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discernment. Show all posts
Monday, July 21, 2014

Robert Blair Kaiser's Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World — Jesuit DNA and the Papacy

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Some weeks back, Rowman & Littlefield kindly sent me for review a copy of Robert Blair Kaiser's book Inside the Jesuits: How ...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Quote for Day: Jay Michaelson on Queer Discernment and the Huck Finn Moment

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Quote for today: Jay Michaelson writing at Religion Dispatches about tshuvah , the call to repentance during Yom Kippur, and the dange...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Vatican Attack on Theologians, Vatican Attack on Humanity

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The following journal entry is from October 1990: I've just read an illuminating, extraordinary passage in Richard Rorty, C ontingency, ...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Churches and Fascism: The Other Side

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Interesting reminder last night of the path some churchmen* took during the Nazi period, which provides a model for us today different from ...
Friday, September 5, 2008

The Kind of Place from Which Hate Comes: Discerning the Spirit in Political Decisions

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In a previous posting on this blog, I noted a brilliant observation of Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell from this year’s United Methodist General C...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Accidie and Running from Whales

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Sometimes I feel itchy inside—in heart and soul—and when that happens, I know I’m entering into a period of what early Christian monks of th...
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Discourse Rules for Holy Conferencing: Being Honest about M-O-N-E-Y

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Discourse Rule Two Effective holy conferencing requires policies and procedures to create transparency and accountability among all par...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Discourse Rules for Holy Conferencing: Speaking Truth in Love

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In my next series of postings, I’d like to spell out some discourse rules that, in my totally unsolicited view, would help churches of the r...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Unsolicited Theological Reflections about the UMC and IRD

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Note that this is part of a double posting following one I just made. That posting summarizes my recent research on the IRD and the United ...