Tag: possibility
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Shaking Things Up
People can get stuck thinking they have understood God, but the Holy Spirit shakes things up. Fortunately, since we seem to need shaking up. We seem to have a tendency to get comfortable with the wrong things. Our pastor pointed out on Sunday that the lectionary reading for the Sixth Sunday of Easter this year…
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Different Worlds
What if “the way things are” is not “the” way? What if “that’s just the way it is” does not have to be that way? What if there is another way? What if the people who claim to know how things are and must be and have decided that all things considered this is what’s…
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Easter Sunday
This morning started out foggy and damp, but ended up brilliantly sunny and warm. There were a dozen or so colored eggs in the landscaping by the front door of the church that hadn’t been there the last time – surprise! This gave the front of the church a bright, festive look. About a third…
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A Protocol for Critical Thinking
Here is one way to think about what “critical thinking” is: a set of concrete questions. When we ask ourselves these questions, and follow appropriate procedures for answering them, we are “doing” critical thinking.
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Aristotle’s Question
The Big Question of the Humanities is “what is the good life?” I used to think it was primarily an academic question, but I’m old now, and I am learning from experience that it can take the form of an existential question: “Have I lived a good life?” “Have I been living a good life?”…
Matters of Interpretation 