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Progress: Do we want it and what is it?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Andrew Cornelius Apr 6.
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That's great, sagely. I'm from (the suburbs of) Detroit and of course it has a special place in my heart. I live in Sacramento now, but I'd love to hear about your plans as they continue to develop. I'm hoping to move back to Michigan in a few yea...
Hey guys. I'm not technically in the areas listed, but I moved to Sacramento about 2 months ago, so I figure I'm close enough! I found an awesome evangelical Quaker church here called Midtown Friends that I'm getting involved with. I go to school ...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the broken treaties, oppression, and genocide of the people who were here before us - the native americans. At what price did this country stake its claim to a society where everyone has the right to "life, liber...
Andrew Cornelius said:Where did Jesus say that? Insofar as I'm aware, the passage you're citing has to do with the resurrection, not with our lives in the here and now.
Andrew, He says in Matthew 22:30 that
“At the resurrection people will neit...
Wow. This discussion is really on fire! It's definitely a hot-button issue. I think about homosexuality in terms of humanity's relationship among its members in general. I believe (as Jesus said) that in a state of shalom, marriage does not exist....
Not sure what you mean exactly by "young people", but a book that comes immediately to mind is "Seeking Peace" by Johann Christof-Arnold. He is part of the Bruderhof community. I found the book randomly and read it about 3 yrs ago and at the time ...
yet that progress should not imply that we somehow are progressively more Enlightened as time moves on in all arenas; that's the "cheap hat trick of the Enlightenment paradigm" that Michael made us aware of.
I never claimed such an implication.
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Nate, I wasn’t ignoring you I didn’t have a chance to respond last week.
Nate: I think you're missing the forest for the trees, even as your "trees" display theological insight deeply informed by the Scriptures. You deeply handicap discussion and...
Kari,
GREAT questions!
Michael,
I think you're missing the forest for the trees, even as your "trees" display theological insight deeply informed by the Scriptures. You deeply handicap discussion and important reflection on progress by defining...
Christianity assumes progress. You move from women are property, jews vs. outsiders, YHWH vs. all other gods, even progress toward monotheism initially, to in Christ there is no jew or gentile and so on (not to mention a new covenant). Progress oc...
There is no such thing as progress if you mean by that “moving society and human beings toward a higher good.” Progress was a cheap hat trick produced by the Enlightenment paradigm. If by better you mean a smart bomb is better than a dumb bomb is ...
Whoa. Kari, you raise some interesting and potentially fruitful questions.
I do think that our society is, in some ways, blindly pulled forwards by its own late-consumer capitalist momentum. However, within that, there is a concerted effort by ma...
What is progress according to our society? Do you think there are guiding assumptions that lead our society inevitably towards something specific (perhaps not dreamt up or articulated by any one person but collectively followed)? Or do you think t...
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- At 9:03pm on February 16, 2009,
Mark Van Steenwyk said…
- Hey Kari, glad to have you here!
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