Tag: Faith
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“Do not go gentle into that good night…”
“I think they’re trying to cancel the Enlightenment!”
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Truth — Where Did You Go?
Photo by Rhii Photography on Unsplash It’s still here. We just got lost in lies. Everybody takes a shot at defining Truth (capital T) at one time or another: Philosophers, poets, politicians, pundits, priests, and other people whose names begin with “p”. Also artists, scientists, and bloggers, your auntie who knows why you’re not married, and that…
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What’s the Big Idea?
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash No, seriously — what makes you who you are? Think of the last time you had to deal with someone whose worldview was clearly totally, 180 degrees, no-common-ground, different from your own. Each thinks the other is morally repugnant. Each shakes their head and asks, “Who even are you?” With luck, that person…
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Which obscure sin tops the charts right now?
If you are like many progressive believers or the spiritual-but-not-religious type, you may not spend much time thinking about (cough, cough) sin. Oh, you’ve heard about those classic Seven Deadly Sins, if not in Sunday School then in that 1995 movie Se7en. That film made about $100 million by rendering the sins cartoonishly horrific. (I…
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Ten books that shaped my raggedy soul
When Jack Preston King tagged me to list my Ten Most Influential Books, I was startled to realize that I had never made such a list before — not here; not on Goodreads; not on Facebook when I was on Facebook. Once in a while, I had the snarky urge to make a list of the “50…
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Playing hide and seek with G*D
Why we don’t look in churches anymore. Where do you go on Sundays if you are “spiritual but not religious”? Oft-cited Pew Research Center surveys report an increase in the percentage of respondents who answer “None” when asked to name their religious identity: from about 16% in 2007 to around 29% in 2018. Not surprisingly, their…
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What we talk about when we talk about G*d
At this stage of my life, I find myself increasingly seeking simplicity on many questions. While I’ve always been happy to analyze, over-analyze, and problematize important issues about life, language, religious expressions, and the best office supplies, I am now more interested in the irreducible questions at the core of these issues. Right now, I’m…
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