November 2003
The Archives
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Creating global social capital?
11.25.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Creating global social capital?The Happy Tutor explains right wing political philosophy and the purpose of right wing philanthropy. One-upping John Locke, he muses, “What we owe the poor is the least they will accept in lieu of cutting our throats. We call that the social contract.” Ann Florini argues that a new form of social capital is being […]
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My Credo
11.24.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsYesterday I presented this to our young adult Sunday School class. We just completed a ten-week study on building your own theology. I believe in community. I believe that community transforms us, makes us better than what we are. I believe that god is in all and all is in god, that god is a […]
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The divine dorsal fin, pierced just for me
11.20.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on The divine dorsal fin, pierced just for meAKMA has figured out that, amidst speculation that Jesus might have been married, the real dirty secret of early Christianity was that Jesus was half man, half dolphin. But notice — he associated with fishermen, and he had an inexplicable knowledge of where to catch the most fish even though he wasn’t a fisherman himself! […]
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Send them back to the RIAA
11.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Send them back to the RIAAMy conscience is absolved.
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Keeping the raft afloat
11.16.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe preacher today talked about Huck Finn. He built the sermon around Huck’s moral dilemma–whether or not turn in his friend, the escaping slave Jim. For Twain, he argued, the shore of the Mississippi represents society and everything wrong with it. The raft they travel on, on the other hand, represents the individual and freedom […]
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What is the good news for Henry Nelson Wieman?
11.14.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on What is the good news for Henry Nelson Wieman?We can partake in the “creative interchange,” that is, an appreciative understanding of the other that leads to an appreciative understanding of ourselves. This occurs in four ways: An expansion of the breadth and diversity of knowledge An increased ability to appreciatively understand others An increased capacity to become a whole individual An increased capacity […]
