Posted by Rev. David on May 4, 2012
In the last few months, I have been wrestling with one particular set of theological and epistemological questions… and I’m not done with them yet. That has been part of the reason for the fall-off of writing here at Celestial Lands. Unsure of where I was flowing around the issue, I was unsure of what [...]
Categories: liberal faith, theology
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Tags: adaptive challenge, adaptive change, adaptive problem, belief, belief vs. truth, how to believe, knowing, liberal faith, objective truth, religion, science, science and religion, science vs religion, scientific method, technical problem, theology, truth, truth with a capital t
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Posted by Rev. David on April 4, 2012
We human beings have many times many different prejudices. I’m not trying to make a value statement in saying that, just naming something that I believe is an inherent aspect of human nature. We are deeply prejudiced beings. It is impossible that this not be the case. I have never met anyone who did not [...]
Categories: theology
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Posted by Rev. David on January 29, 2008
This past summer I had a conversation with a very conservative Christian pastor at the U.S. Army Chaplain School, in which I, a Unitarian Universalist, had the audacity to use the word “God”. He looked at me with an angry eye and said “So who’s your God, Mammon?!?” I have heard it said many times [...]
Categories: God, History, Interfaith
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