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Making Sense of Religion 1. I Got Religion!!!
This is the first of a series of five talks about Making Sense of Religion, in which I finally “come out” and declare “I got religion!” —which is a bit of a double entendre and I’ll leave it to you to figure out what I mean. This introductory talk is a bit long, and also “Read more“
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The Longing That Leads Beyond: Romantic Love, Eros, and the Desire for God
We have been talking about love, and throughout this series I have tried to steer us away from thinking about love primarily as a romantic feeling. Instead, we focused on the actionable aspects of love—the kind of love expressed in service, forgiveness, and care for others. In other words, the kind of love the New “Read more“
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Beyond Fairness: Learning the Logic of Grace Through Forgiveness
We have been talking about love and trying to understand its actionable dimensions. Last time, we discussed community and saw how love and grace shaped the early church as it moved from a pseudocommunity into a true community. Today I would like to turn to one of the practices without which love and community simply “Read more“
Michael asks: what do you think of the idea of freedom expressed here? Is is true freedom? ChatGPT answers: The…
Class seems to be developing an anal fixation, with all this talk of bums and (on December 3) of rectal…
Daoism would agree, I think. Freedom comes with accepting the Dao—the Way, God. Struggling against it is not freedom and…