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Thoughts on Obama?

Started May. 8, 2009

Share your frustrations with Job-hunting, for those in transition.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by dlw Jan 31.

Appaloosa: Follow Christ or Fall Apart!
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Started this discussion. Last reply by dlw Jan. 15, 2009.

Honest Political Economic Dialogue.

Started Jan. 14, 2009

 

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Political Views
Liberal
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Religion
Follower of Christ
Favorite Theologian
Justo Gonzalez(Historical/Contextual Latin American), Allister McGrath(Historical/Systematic British), Thorstein Moritz(NT Scholar/Existentialist German), Greg Boyd(Popularizer/Apologetics USAmerican), Thomas Merton(Mystic)
Favorite Philosopher
Pythagoras, Voltaire, Pascal, CS Pierce, Warren Samuels
Favorite News-source
Google News and Global Views

A Bit More About Me....

Defense of Above Verboseness: One should try to have more than one favorite philosopher/theologian, inasmuch as the best of such has always come from dialogue or praxis-oriented cross-fertilization across traditions. And one should not anticipate recovering much of the transcultural good news that all of creation groans for without doing some digging, apart from the popular controversies of today.

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Move Over Health Care, Pass the Election Reform!

I'm posting a three part editorial series that will cover three goals, rules, and strategies for the renewal of our democracy in the US through strategic state-level election reform.

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Posted on October 12, 2009 at 10:18pm —

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Last Post for Lent, Apart maybe from Sundays in Cases of Immense Blessing!

I had a very good conversation during a plane flight back to MN this past thursday with a conservative catholic business executive named Joe who works for Bank of America. I think he was Joe Price, their Chief Financial Officer, he was flying to MN his 2nd home for some r&r and to detox from the stress of his job, go figure... He really liked my idea: Project Democratic Renewal(PDR) for using PRContinue

Posted on February 25, 2009 at 2:04am —

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Changeling plus Changing Our Views of Movies and/or Sermons!


My (*spoilers included*) Response to yet another Manifestation of Clint's (recovered) Call(ing)!
















































Loved it, in part because the pacing and ending were quite different from what one typically e… Continue

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 5:00pm —

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The Wesley/Frost/Nixon Connection | Still Sowing Seeds of Yet Another Awakening!


[avec un accent français] Comme toujours, il y a ***spoilers*** dessous! [sans un accent français]

























To be brief and to the point(here's a more extensive review). One of the best scenes in… Continue

Posted on January 30, 2009 at 6:27am —

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At 9:08am on November 23, 2009, Mike Morrell said…
Ruusbroec in one link.
At 11:14pm on March 5, 2009, Andre LaTondresse said…
Sorry for the lag. I hadn't gotten back on the machine for a while.

I also seemed to me that we were wandering off toward "wrangl(ing) about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers" territory. In regard to what we can know, need to know, how we can know it, I start with 2 Peter !:2-4: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."

"everything pertaining to life and godliness," covers all the ground I care about. And "become partakers of the divine nature" and "having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust," mops up any loose ends for me.

I don't believe this is the realm of scientific proof or mere factual information, but personal knowledge grounded in personal experience. But there's more than this as well. Romans 1: 18-20 speaks about "that which is known about God..." and says that it "is evident within them; for God made it evident to them."

I find that word, "evident," to be an interesting one to meditate on. It suggests that the available evidence has long been adequate to arrive at the relevant and needed conclusions. Long before there was scientific method (which of course can't apply to these things anyway) God tells me that "His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, through what has been made... "

Clearly seeing the invisible - also an interesting idea to meditate on. And He indicates that this evidence of such sufficiency that those who fail (or refuse) to see it are without excuse. Not my idea - His. Not my words — His.
At 7:56pm on February 23, 2009, Grace said…
really? hmm....not too surprising I guess, but why do you think that is?
At 2:41am on February 9, 2009, Jim Killingsworth said…
I think an excellent social psychologist is more believeable than an economist. Perhaps even an excellent numerologist.
At 2:07pm on February 3, 2009, will said…
i enjoy your post-creedal bit. boy that could be opening a can of worms!
At 9:37pm on February 2, 2009, Jim Killingsworth said…
No economist that I know of. If I was I probably wouldn't admit it right now.
At 9:09am on January 19, 2009, Charletta Erb said…
Yes, I grew up Mennonite in Iowa. I was raised in a community that was perhaps more like mainstream evangelicals than Mennonite, but I learned more about my heritage and faith tradition when I attended Goshen College in Indiana. So then I started studying Peace Justice and Conflict Studies with a focus in mediation and organizational conflict. So that's me.
At 11:55pm on January 15, 2009, Faith Totushek said…
that's what bugs me too... the certitude they have is scary.
At 11:52pm on January 15, 2009, Faith Totushek said…
how do i post?
At 9:51am on January 15, 2009, Faith Totushek said…
i attended bethel sem and graduated in 07. did you read this? evangelicalism is taking a scary turn toward spiritual abuse. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11punk-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1
 
 
 

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