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Perplexity Project: April 2009
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Saturday, April 4, 2009. Evolution is a kind of springboard from which an entire branch of applied science is launched. Advances in ecological theory, in genetics and in the treatment of disease may be seen as important examples of applied evolutionary theory. Friday, April 3, 2009. The Mystery of the Person. The Mystery of a People. Where Mystery is met. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Perplexity Project: November 2008
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Monday, November 17, 2008. Turkey Day, 2008. National Holidays make me suspicious. It may be something Anglican in me that leads me to approach Thanksgiving and its noble Pilgrims with trepidation. An apocryphal story is told about the Bishop of South Carolina, Fitz Allison. Bishop Allison when confronted with his child dressed as a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving Pageant is reported to have asked, "Why are you dressed like the enemy? H L Menchen's definition of Puritanism.
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Perplexity Project: Brand Name Faith
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Monday, March 9, 2009. Gone are the faith conversations of my youth. Back then, we were all Christians. The questions were about "what brand? Since then, I have been looking at branding as a feature in itself. Brands began as a sign of ownership. Early on, they are about possession. One brands a property. My. Buggywhip were the sine qua non of branding. Only later, when mass communication appeared a brand identified me. It is no longer my beer, but it is me!
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Perplexity Project: June 2009
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Sunday, June 7, 2009. Some thoughts while mowing the lawn. . . The apparent failure of the Diocese of Northern Michigan to secure consents to its Bishop Elect, Kevin Thew Forrester has elicited a spirited, if superficial, response. While I have written publicly on the matter before I wanted to reflect on something of the meaning of the failure. So here goes. Shall we take a sectarian approach, circle the wagons and end the discussion? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Perplexity Project: Time It Was
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Each age follows on the foundation of another. When the Greeks translated the Jesus stories, they did so in the familiar Greek. There, the word for time is rendered by two words, chronos. Truth is that way. It is chronos. It must be talked about and requires stories. How might we learn the empathy that can help us to understand one another? How can we look at Vietnam in wasy that reflect what actually happened to us? That still shapes us must be u...
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Perplexity Project: September 2008
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Monday, September 22, 2008. Because television can make so much money doing its worst, it often cannot afford to do its best. -Fred Friendly. The way we live is eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention- the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress. -Maggie Jackson. Saturday, September 20, 2008. 9-14, The New 9-11? Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. Or will this become yet another appeal for parish fund raising?
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Perplexity Project: September 2009
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Nine Eleven no, No, NO! Each year, as September 11th approaches, the air is filled with a kind of horrid nostalgia. It makes us all into self involved little automatons. Particularly idiotic are the suggestions that we build some sort of 9-11 Shrine or declare a National Holiday of it. The prospect makes me shudder. Here is why. Theologians call the ennobling rituals, symbols. And the demeaning ones, diabols. But please, no holiday.
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Perplexity Project: Taking Out the Trash
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Friday, February 13, 2009. Taking Out the Trash. Garbage in; garbage out." This warning to computer users is also a warning to theologians. Has God withdrawn favor from the American experiment? The focus on God and me is now the dominant arena for God talk in the west. "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so," the evangelical gospel proclaims. Economic policy is shaped by what is good for. The "war on terror" is waged to keep me. Wants First person singular.
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Perplexity Project: Evolutionary THEORY
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Saturday, April 4, 2009. Evolution is a kind of springboard from which an entire branch of applied science is launched. Advances in ecological theory, in genetics and in the treatment of disease may be seen as important examples of applied evolutionary theory. It's the same kind of theory as gravity? This is one of my favorite subjects, and there was a good article by Christopher Hitchens in Newsweek this week about it. Yes, the springboard of biological science of evolutio...
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Perplexity Project: March 2009
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Building the Heart's Capacity. Monday, March 9, 2009. Gone are the faith conversations of my youth. Back then, we were all Christians. The questions were about "what brand? Since then, I have been looking at branding as a feature in itself. Brands began as a sign of ownership. Early on, they are about possession. One brands a property. My. Buggywhip were the sine qua non of branding. Only later, when mass communication appeared a brand identified me. It is no longer my beer, but it is me!
