Posts belonging to Category Patriotism
Posted by Rev. David on September 14, 2012
Freedom is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the United States, and perhaps in the world. Be it Religious Freedom, or Freedom of Speech, or the Freedom of the Press, the Freedom of Association, or any of the common conceptions of freedom that we experience in the United States, I believe that we as [...]
Categories: Defining Religious Langauge, Patriotism, politics, Prophetic Voice
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Posted by Rev. David on September 7, 2012
I promised myself that I would not move into my “occasional political musings” this election season until after the conventions were over. Well, the speeches in Charlotte and Tampa are done, and now I feel that there are some things that I have to say… President Obama is not a Liberal Socialist who believes that [...]
Categories: Equality, Patriotism, politics
| Tags: activism, David Pyle, draft, election, guns, IMF, justice, liberal, liberal faith, liberal socialist, liberalism, national healthcare, Obama, politics, socialism, socialist, World Bank
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Posted by Rev. David on May 10, 2012
One of the genre’s of Science Fiction that I love is what is called “near future Sci-Fi”. These are stories set to occur in the next 200 years or so. What I love about them is that they “forecast” out not into some far off fantastic future, but into the coming decades and centuries. In [...]
Categories: Patriotism, politics, Prophetic Voice
| Tags: academic achievement, America, American, American Exceptionalism, American irrelevance, american military power, city on a hill, diplomacy, History, justice, liberal, liberal faith, liberalism, politics, Prophetic Voice, sermon on the mount, technology, theology, United States military power
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Posted by Rev. David on November 18, 2011
It is far easier for us humans to know what we are against than it is for us to know what we are for. Learned responses and internal morality can tell us if we are “against” something that we experience in our lives. We can know that we do not like the way our banking [...]
Categories: History, liberal faith, Patriotism, politics, Social Engagement
| Tags: activism, clergy, Equality, History, hope, justice, liberal, liberal faith, liberalism, occupy, occupy clergy, occupy movement, occupy protest, occupy wall street, politics, populism, populist, Prophetic Voice, relationship, responsibility, revolt, revolution, revolutionary
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Posted by Rev. David on October 3, 2011
In the last few months, I have heard the word Oligarchy being bandied around on the edges of American political circles. In the Tea-Party wing, they are using it as a new word for “Hollywood Elite” and “Liberal Media”. On the semi-far left it is being used to refer to corporations and the wealthy. In [...]
Categories: Patriotism, politics
| Tags: activism, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, David Pyle, democracy, election, Equality, federal, federalist, feudal, feudalism, feudalist, governance, government, governmental systems, History, justice, liberal, liberalism, liberty, military junta, monarch, monarchy, oligarch, oligarchic, oligarchy, politics, Prophetic Voice, relationship, Republican, responsibility, technocracy, technocrat, totalitarian, tyranny, tyrant
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Posted by Rev. David on September 20, 2011
It may not be something that is in the minds of most of the public, but today, September 20th, has been a date on my mind for these last two months. It is a day long hoped for, long worked for, and dreamed of by many. It is a day when thousands of military service [...]
Categories: liberal faith, Military, Ministry, Patriotism, politics, Social Engagement
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Posted by Rev. David on July 2, 2011
I think this topic is becoming a regular 4th of July weekend tradition of mine, mainly because I have had it with the idea that unless someone is a Fox News watching, gun toting Tea-Party Republican they are not a “Real American”. Beyond the fact that such definitions of “Real American” often do not include [...]
Categories: God, liberal faith, Military, Patriotism, politics, Prophetic Voice, Religious Freedom
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Posted by Rev. David on May 4, 2011
These last few days, I have been on a trip to attend a U.S. Army Chaplains training conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. I have been in hotels, airports, and restaurants in my military uniform, sometimes with other Army Chaplains, but often on my own. For these several days, I have had an experience happen over and [...]
Categories: History, Military, Patriotism, politics, Turnings
| Tags: 911, al Qaeda, bin Laden, chaplain, David Pyle, death, death of Osama, fear, hope, killed, liberal, Military, military chaplain, Ministry, Navy Seals, Osama, Osama bin Laden, politics, Prophetic Voice, responsibility, Seal Team Six, soldier, terror, terrorist, Usama bin Laden
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Posted by Rev. David on April 27, 2011
In my weekly pastoral letter to my congregation here in Midland Michigan, I spoke of a feeling that I have. It is a feeling I know makes no rational sense, but I have long believed that feelings are not necessarily supposed to make rational sense. They are the soul trying to tell me something. Let [...]
Categories: Ministry, Patriotism, politics, Prophetic Voice, Social Engagement
| Tags: activism, California, David Pyle, Emergency Financial Managers, Equality, faith, justice, liberal, liberal faith, liberalism, Mackinac Center, MI, Michigan, Ministry, politics, Prophetic Voice, protests, Rachel Maddow, responsibility, Snyder, social justice, social witness, unions, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, UU Fellowship of Michigan
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Posted by Rev. David on March 23, 2011
For all our power in the world, the United States is still a very young nation. Unlike the modern states in Europe, in Asia, and in the Middle East, we do not stand upon thousands of years of history in the location where our nation is. Because of our youth as a nation, and a [...]
Categories: History, Military, Patriotism, politics, Turnings
| Tags: america as gods chosen people, America as new rome, American empire, American Exceptionalism, American superiority, David Pyle, divine right, Doctrine of Exceptionalism, Exceptionalism, growing up, History, justice, liberal, Libya, Military, politics, responsibility, superpower, U.S. superiority, war
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