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by Mark C. Taylor...art lest we loose the freedom above things that our ideal demands of us…. We should be able to stand above morality – and not only to stand with the...
A Secular Age
Immortal mortal
by Patrick Lee Miller...he would be free to love the world perfectly. Not resenting the temporal world as an obstacle to an eternal paradise, he might reveal the kingdom of god to be...
"These things are old"
Barack Obama’s Book of Virtues
by John Schmalzbauer...the two values most often identified with the American creed: equality and freedom. Earlier in his address, Obama invoked the “God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and...
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The cross and the cheeseheads
by John D. BoyWhere do Christians stand with regard to Wisconsin’s euphemistically named “budget repair bill“? That’s a question stirring up some debate around the blogosphere. Becky Garrison at Comment is free: While...
"These things are old"
Obama’s living virtues
by Jennifer Herdt...the nineteenth-century concept of nationalism, promotion of the power and influence of one’s nation-state, but something rooted in the classical conception of pietas. Unlike piety, which in modern English is...
Global Christianity, Global Critique
Falling on the sword of the spirit
by Ruth Marshall...dialectic, complete with its Christian overtones. As Nancy and Derrida argue, phenomenology has never been free from a certain Christian thought of the flesh, the suffering body, and the overbid...
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Saving America, one godless liberal at a time
by Charles Gelman...a Liberal” and “pray earnestly and intensely for them.” (Semantic aside: Ironically, “liberty” and “liberal” share the same Latin root, liber, an adjective meaning free.) Liberty’s prayer list of liberals...
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The new landscape of the religion blogosphere
by Richard Bartholomew, Joe Carter, Frederick Clarkson, David Gibson, Scott Korb, Paul Levinson, William McKenzie, John Schmalzbauer, Mark Silk and Chuck Tryon...blogs are neither churches nor parachurch ministries, they should be free from congregational supervision—even when they are writing about issues concerning their denomination’s view of doctrine. If this view is...