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Alien Nation: Will Our Children Have Faith Part 3: A More Dynamic Theology

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Thursday, February 10, 2011. Will Our Children Have Faith Part 3: A More Dynamic Theology. One of my continuing concerns is not being clear on what we desire to achieve through our catechetical (educational) efforts. Our aim, I suggest, is to form Christ-like communal persons and communities. This implies for me clarity of faith, of how we are to perceive God. Many people have unhealthy images of God that need to be healed. 2 We get scripted. All of us get scripted t...

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Alien Nation: Almost Christian Review Part 3 or 3 Ways to Live Faith with our Children

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Tuesday, February 08, 2011. Almost Christian Review Part 3 or 3 Ways to Live Faith with our Children. If teenagers lack an articulate faith, maybe it is because the faith we show them is too spineless to merit much in the way conversation. Maybe teenager' inability to talk about religion is not because the church inspires a faith too deep for words, but because the God-story that we tell is too vapid to merit more than a superficial vocabulary. But aside from going to ch...

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Alien Nation: October 2009

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Can we avoid the 'Political'? Today was a great day. My friend Malone got invited to join the Faith and Order committee of the Rhode Island Council of Churches and they were looking for another Baptist, so he invited me. (thanks pal! Links to this post. Thursday, October 15, 2009. San Miguel School in Providence. Check out their website http:/ sanmiguelprov.org. I think you'll be impressed. Oh, its private, but the families only have to pay...

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Alien Nation: Serve God Save the Planet Part 3 Chapter 8

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Thursday, February 03, 2011. Serve God Save the Planet Part 3 Chapter 8. Television: More Real Than Real. The average American watches 1,700 hours of television annually, while the average shcool-age child attends only nine hundred hours fo classes a year. by the time the typical person in our country reaches age seventy-one, he will have spent a solid ten waking years sitting in front of a television. Sleeth's point in devoting a chapter on television is three-fold.

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Alien Nation: June 2009

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Word of the Day - Deracinate; 1. to pull up by the roots; uproot; extirpate; eradicate. 2. to isolate or alienate (a person) from a native or customary culture or environment. I'm reading 'Being Consumed; Economics and Christian Desire' by William T. Cavanaugh. Here is a quote that explains his work in the first chapter entitle 'Freedom and Unfreedom'. Anyone have other reading suggestions? Links to this post. Monday, June 29, 2009. Poem for Today...

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Alien Nation: July 2009

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Saturday, July 25, 2009. Michael Sandel's Leith Lectures. The vast number of you who are fans of my blog will recall that this past week, while at the Chautauqua Institute, I heard Michael Sandel lecture. I enjoyed his lecture immensely and so did some googling and found the link to the audio of his Leith Lectures. The second lecture is entitled Morality in Politics. And this is a link to its transcript. Genetics and Morality. Links to this post. Friday, July 24, 2009.

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Alien Nation: On My Way to a Sermon on Deuteronomy 30: God's Gonna Cut You Down

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Wednesday, February 09, 2011. On My Way to a Sermon on Deuteronomy 30: God's Gonna Cut You Down. What three things would you say about God? I asked my 9 and 7 year old sons. He's cool,He's nice, He's loving. But for today, it's the adjectives; cool, nice, loving that I'm thinking about. I'm glad they've got the idea of God as 'loving.' But 'cool' and 'nice'? And don't give me that, 'That is the Old Testament God' stuff. The questions to consider; What is dangerous about ...

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Alien Nation: Will Our Children Have Faith Part 2 No More Sunday School

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Monday, February 07, 2011. Will Our Children Have Faith Part 2 No More Sunday School. Reading this book sometimes frustrates me. Westerhoff suggests, as noted earlier, that the current 'schooling-instructional paradigm' is simply not effective for nurturing faith in children and youth. But exactly what the alternative is, Westerhoff doesn't really explain. Except to suggest that it is the church. The church is the place not sunday school. Sunday School leave the traditio...

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Alien Nation: Serve God, Save the Planet: an Hour of Work, a Day of Rest

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Ethics, Theology, Church, Prayer. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Serve God, Save the Planet: an Hour of Work, a Day of Rest. How Do We Get Our Sabbath Skills Back? We confuse working with living' Matthew Sleeth pg 99. In this chapter Matthew Sleeth writes about both the importance of physical labor and of actually observing Sabbath. Perhaps we would be more clear about how to do Sabbath is we were more clear about the purpose of our labor beyond getting the bills paid and the retirement fund safely nestled ...