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Communities of Hope, Love, Joy, Peace, and … gulp… , Skepticism?
Posted under Study Papers by Richard E Gillilan on Friday April 11 2008 @ 04:51AM PDT |
| Steven Jay Gould famously described science and religion as non-overlapping. He was wrong. People are very good at compartmentalization, but religious activism in recent decades has made conflicts painfully obvious. The objection is not just to evolutionary biology, but to the scientific method itself. What is the scientific method and where do conflicts arise? Increasingly, believers are confronted with skeptics and nonbelievers who base their worldview on scientific naturalism. Can a faith community find common ground with persons opposed to faith? Taking on the role of skeptic, I will explore the nature of sacredness, worship, reconciliation, healing, and the transforming experience of divine presence through the eyes of scientific naturalism. In attempting to see through someone else’s eyes we are better able to see ourselves clearly and are better equipped to overcome the linguistic, conceptual, and experiential barriers that separate persons and communities.
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Religion the Queen of Science or its Nemesis?
Posted under Study Papers by Kidron on Monday February 18 2008 @ 08:10AM PST |
We are living at a time unprecedented in the history of mankind. The science of physics has been exploited to allow the manufacture of an enormous array of inventions. These applications of the insights from theoretical studies have led to instruments that let us see into the minute world of atomic structure and into the far reaches of the universe. Daily we live with miracles all around us.
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Flanders Nauvoo
Posted under Book Reviews by Chris Vanel (Frenchy) on Wednesday January 10 2007 @ 10:33PM PST |
| Book review : Robert Bruce FLANDERS, Nauvoo, kingdom on the Mississipi, University of Illinois Press, 1965
This is not a usual Book review. I didn’t try to present a summary of Flanders’s great work on Nauvoo. Instead I tended to show how great this book is and how foundational to one phase of Mormon history.
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Reposted on Friday January 12 2007 @ 02:06PM PST
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Dealing with Poverty
Posted under Study Papers by Margie on Wednesday August 30 2006 @ 10:49PM PDT |
| Dealing with People in Poverty
October, 2006
Working with the Red Cross administering Project Deserve Funds for five years and now working with the same people in administering the FAST Crisis Ministry, I have learned a lot about people living in poverty that I did not realize before.
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Restore Me, O God!
Posted under Sermons and Devotions by Margie on Monday July 31 2006 @ 09:11AM PDT |
| Restore Me, O God!
August 6, 2006
The people of God operate from the realization that God calls them to live the kind of life that reflects God’s desire for ultimate good to be expressed in each person. This is Communion Sunday and an opportunity for each of us to reflect on our lives. We each know
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