Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy app...
It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems." Hank the Cowdog
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran
Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said all along that those ceremonies are pagan and we can't do that. Our people insist that they are free in the gos...
What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anyth...
We may have done what the devil said we did, but we are NOT who the devil says we are!
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?
Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While it is possible to believe in God, one has to work much harder at it because the framework of belief ...
In the seeker-church movement the emphasis away from the use and explication of creedal confession is obvious, since the whole point is to focus on the 'felt-needs' of the person in the pew - especially the felt-needs of nonbelievers. The rationale i...
I fully recognize there is an urgent need for constructing the _strategic we-nes-in-sameness_ and promoting the _solidarity of sameness_. The sheer realization of the inextricable interconnectedness of I-ness/me-ness and we-ness/us-ness is the round ...
Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame of reference for theologians, is for, with...
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.
What does it mean to be human, to continue to live as human, to remain _faithful_ to the Divine while living in a cultural, sociogeopoltical, and religious world where power disparity between/among humans based on religious world where power disparit...
_For what ends_ does one claim cosmopolitanism? _Whose interest_ does it serve?
Although I believe identity politics '"produces limited but real empowerment for its participants," it is important to note that it contains significant problems: first, its essentialist tendency; second, its fixed _we-they_ binary position; third, i...
Teaching and learning _religious plurality often ends up privileging religious _texts_ over _practice_ and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts....
