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
| Tags: can humans know truth, God, knowing, liberal, liberal faith, objective reality, paterns of knowing, percpetion, preconception, prejudice, racism, reality, relationship, religion, theology, theory of knowing, truth, ultimate truth
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Posted by Rev. David on February 13, 2010
I don’t like tofu. I’ve tried to eat it and it actually makes me gag. When I was dating, I suffered through several tofu laden meals for a particular liberal-leaning young woman I was attempting to woo… until I realized that if it worked out I would have to eat tofu for the rest of [...]
Categories: Evangelism, God, theology
| Tags: absolute truth, absolutize, Bush, certainty, conditional, conditionalism, conditionalize, idolatry, Obama, politics, post-modern, relativism, tea-party, theology, theology of substitution, tofu, truth
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Posted by Rev. David on May 1, 2009
I have a colleague here at seminary who shares with me several things, including that we both name our cats after Gods, and that we both have Bachelor’s degrees in History. Yet, we have a fundamental disagreement about the method of the study of history. He was trained to try to be as objective as [...]
Categories: History, Interfaith, UU Movement
| Tags: apathy, historian, History, myth of objectivity, myth of truth, objectivity, study of history, truth
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Posted by Rev. David on March 27, 2008
It has taken me several days to write and reflect on Hillary Clinton’s claim that she had come under sniper fire when her plane landed in Bosnia in March of 1996. The reason has been that it is hard for me to properly reflect on something when I am angry about it. I began this [...]
Categories: Military, politics, Prophetic Voice
| Tags: Bosnia, character, Hillary Clinton, politics, truth
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