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Be reverent toward God, because it is the proper and essential thing to do, and because of the blessings associated with it; so to be confident toward your fellow humans. Some groundwork is in order especially regarding the relationship of Christian orthodoxy (lower case “o”), or anything else religious or spiritual, to skepticism and also …
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Do you believe this stuff? Really? “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” (John 6:29) Consider Belief as one leg of a three-legged stool supporting the life of faith. The other legs are Love (Agape, as in “if I do not have love, then I am nothing”) and …
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Consider what our reality is based on. Hint: It is not the tangible temporal world we see and touch every day, the energy and matter around us, the stuff of Newtonian, Relativity, and Quantum physics. Ponder how many Big Bangs are encapsulated in eternity. Here is a rhetorical question, as the answer is patently obvious: …
This framework for our temporal harmony and prosperity is itself framed by the much larger spiritual framework within which it is contained. [See Endnote i] A very low resolution version of that spiritual framework is that all humans have natural intrinsic value worthy of cultivation and nurturing. It is that perspective that guides the following …
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… there are quarrels among you. Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am of Paul,” and “I of Apollos,” and “I of Cephas,” and “I of Christ.” Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul ? …
“Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.” (Proverbs 30:8-9) Let us start …
This section is titled “The Economics of Jesus” instead of “Christian Economics” as the institutional church and individual Christians of all varieties have gotten so many things wrong. This has often been in the form of substituting worldly ambitions for true faith, and attempting to employ Jesus as a helper in those fleshly ambitions in …
There are several causes, some of them less than noble, for the economic inequality between urban and rural areas (and also within those areas). One factor that, if adjusted, could even the odds is equitable availability of broadband Internet in rural areas. For documented reasons it is not commercially feasible for private service providers to …
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The expression that something is “rigged” has gained increased prominence in public discussion lately. The context is that there is some type of cheating going on, in a game, in an election, in a court case, in hiring, or in any other similar situation where demonstrable fairness is expected to be normative but is believed …
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