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Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror
That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift… Continue reading
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Good and the Danger of Pure Transactional Heart
Purity is a dangerous goal but this nation seems suddenly impressed with that word. How many times have we heard that dodgy family of superlatives like pure, perfect, and great used in the current political narrative. Take the stock market. … Continue reading
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Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds
When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting… Continue reading
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Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal
In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or… Continue reading
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Good, Despair, Hope and Faith All the Way Through
When outrage burns hot, despair in the cooling embers is often not far behind. Is it possible to talk about faith without hanging the word up in the tangles of religious debate? Short answer; yes. Richard Rohr says: “Faith is… Continue reading
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Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership
Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism. Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream. Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading
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Democracy’s First Virtue: Telling the Painful Inconvenient Truth
Truth in times like these will more often than not contain an arrangement of facts that are both painful and inconvenient. A recent public hearing showed a crowd screaming at a minority party representative to do something. Do what? The… Continue reading
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Good and Obscene Wealth: the Newest Disability
In case you haven’t noticed the term disability has been transformed in these past decades. In the 1980s and 90s people with functional differences from the mainstream stripped the prefix ‘dis’ from disability and decided that the only issues that… Continue reading
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Good, Unforgiving MAGA, and a New Kind of Inhumanity
The news service article was a throw away; something about the boos for Taylor Swift at the latest Super Bowl. But then the new president of our nation is quoted as having made a very low-end comment saying the boos… Continue reading
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Good, Nurturance, and Designing to the Sound of the Wrecking Ball
People who have their lives in order and may be getting bored often like to praise the virtues of chaos and the opportunities to be found in that state. Well, with this new wrecking ball approach to government, the good… Continue reading
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