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Can One Bishop Save the World From Fundamentalism?
This article attempts to place the Islamic based violence of September 11, and the destructive influence of fundamentalist Christianity into a more hopeful perspective by examining the common ground between Secular Humanism and the ethics of Anglican-Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong's "New View of Christianity". (Part 1 of 2)
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Can One Bishop Save the World From Fundamentalism? (Part II)
This article attempts to place the Islamic based violence of September 11, and the destructive influence of fundamentalist Christianity into a more hopeful perspective by examining the common ground between Secular Humanism and the ethics of Anglican-Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong's "New View of Christianity".
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Stand and do Battle ... Against the Real Foe
NY Times writer Nicolas Kristof is saying that liberals need to take Spong's example, and stay on the field, drop the insults and challenge the radical Christian Right as to their religious and scriptural justifications for attitudes and actions.
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Proving Jesus
The central person of Christianity is Jesus Christ. If Jesus is fictional or mythical, Christianity collapses. So, was Jesus real?
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Christian Thought: Literal, Absolute or Mystical
Internal debate around the future of Christianity seems to mostly centered around a position of literal fundamentalism and that of a more mystical or philosophical approach to Christian values. This artice briefly discusses the alternatives.
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The Bible on Gay Marriage
Why is gay marriage opposed in religious values? And why is gay marriage supported in other religious circles? What does the Bible say about gay marriage?
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Come On Guys! Where Is She?
A two-part discussion of feminist theology and the patriarchal God.
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OIAF 2008: The Winners' Circle
Terra, "I Slept With Cookie Monster," "Chainsaw" and "Drux Flux were the big winners at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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OIAF 2008: The Winners' Circle
Terra, "I Slept With Cookie Monster," "Chainsaw" and "Drux Flux were the big winners at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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Liberal Christian Evangelizing: Exclusivity in God's Kingdom Be Damned
If part and parcel of Christian activism today includes an aggressive evangelical effort then I see liberal Christians empowered to counter the evangelizing of questionable theology and priorities of the Christian Right with an evangelical effort that builds rather than destroys, that seeks peace rather than attempts to justify war, that, like God, encourages awareness of every sparrow that falls - leaving no child, no adult, no family, no culture, no nation or race and no society behind or left out of the "neighbor" whom God says to love.
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OIAF 2008: Shorts Competition 3
Which short animated films rocked the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival Competition 3? Find out here.
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Teetering on the Brink of Destruction
The issue of homosexuality is no stranger to the Anglican Communion. Indeed, how Anglicans handle the controversy may turn out to be a test case for other mainline churches, the consequences of which are still far from sight.
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READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME- a review
A review of READING THE BIBLE AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME, by Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling MEETING JESUS AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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Evidence for Jesus
Before we can consider Jesus as God or Jesus as the Son of God, we must first know whether Jesus ever lived at all. Was there a historical Jesus?
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Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel
In closing, I must be the first to admit that Suite101.com has been the cradle in which my desire and effort to write has been nurtured. Suite101 members have joined in my education by participating in discussion threads with every single participant planting in my interior world a seed of perspective I may not have had previously.
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Political Correctness is Incorrect
Caution: Conservative Christianity Spoken Here. Don't go any further if you might be easily offended.
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The Stool Test
This essay, on the three-legged stool of Scripture, Tradition and Reason, was written by Fr. John-Julian of the Order of Julian of Norwich, and originally published on the order's website, "Julian Jottings."
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Christian Evangelism As An Influence For Good
A suggestion for effective contemporary evangelism.
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