Christianity
Weekly Sermon: Learner's Mind- A Passion for the Partial
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Before death, we all need to first come to peace with all that is undone. I mean real peace now; peace that no part of us or our work is ever done.
Christianity
Time of Discernment
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What is worth discerning as 2013 draws to a close? The discerning eye perceives themes that don’t make headlines, yet may turn out to be the most determinative.
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Pope Francis on the "Different Species of Human" a.k.a. Women
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Pope Francis praises women while asserting that their gender-based skill set is not fit for leadership. He thinks women are geniuses, but still not sharp enough to be priests or govern their own bodies. This flattery strategy will not work for those of us who would like to see women ordained to the priesthood, and we can not allow such superimposed gender norms to be delivered around the world.
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Weekly Sermon: Learner's Mind- A Fragrance Fills the House
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All the pain and anxiety about money arises in forgetting that our only mission is to love. Detoured from our inner aim, we focus on distrust and power and fear.
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Catholic Bishops Elect New Leader, Still Insist on Conflating Same-Sex Marriage and Abortion
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American Catholic bishops continue to equate homosexuality and abortion. It’s just a more sophisticated form of screaming “I hate fags!”
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Weekly Sermon- Learner's Mind: Make The Inside Out
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Stephen Phelps asserts that personal transformations are a crucial precursor to American political transformation. In order to fix the current system that quickly labels and ostracizes a person deemed “criminal”, we must practice forgiveness, understanding, and empathy.
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Micah Meets Mark Braverman
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An interview brought to you by Micah’s Paradigm Shift of Mark Braverman. Braverman, who has deep family roots in Israel, has developed what he describes as a ‘calling’ to speak to the Church in a spirit of Christian teaching that sees Jesus as a radical Jew rebelling against the Jewish establishment and the Roman occupation of first century Palestine.
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Weekly Sermon: Learner's Mind- Make Love Stronger Than Death
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When you encounter those who are living in the world and those who are dying in it, and you hear them voice their confidence that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will separate them from the love of God, take them as your guides and teachers.
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The Sacred Heart of Jesus is not an ATM Machine
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For preachers of the so-called “prosperity gospel,” business is booming. They even have their own cable reality TV show. What First Amendment-sound legal reforms might we consider to stand against the commodification of God?
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Weekly Sermon: Learner's Mind- Between Empire and Kingdom Come
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Text:Jeremiah 29: 1-7; Luke 17: 11-18
In the first pages of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, the reader confronts a Columbus quite different from the one we learned in school. Some may be aware that he sailed on condition of receiving a large share in the profits from his gold-seeking adventure, but everyone knows that early on October 12, 1492, a sailor finally sighted land. Columbus’ ship was met by Arawak Indians swimming out to greet the visitors. In his journal, the explorer wrote of these Indians:
They are well-built, with good bodies and handsome features. .