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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Monday, January 31, 2011 |
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(ABP) -- Here is one Christian ethicist's grammatical analysis of important lines in last week's thoughtful State of the Union address by President Obama.
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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Monday, January 17, 2011 |
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(ABP) -- We have another gun massacre by another deranged young American man, this one targeting a U.S. congresswoman for assassination and wounding or killing 20 people, including, heartbreakingly, an innocent 9-year-old child.
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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Monday, January 03, 2011 |
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(ABP) -- It’s 2011, and the real problems of our real world will impinge soon enough. But for this one column I want to linger over four great movies that I experienced in the waning days of 2010 -- True Grit, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, and Black Swan. Undoubtedly each of these will be up for Academy Awards for their sheer artistic excellence. I want to comment on the way each of these narratives offers an account of moral virtue.
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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Monday, December 20, 2010 |
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(ABP) -- Christmas draws near and 2010 comes to a close. For my year-end column, I offer scattered musings on what were, for me, some of the biggest surprises of 2010.
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Seeking The Kingdom
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By David Gushee
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Monday, December 06, 2010 |
(ABP) -- Since the origin of Christian social ethics in the late 19th century as an Anglo-American academic-ecclesial discipline, economic problems have been at the center of our profession’s concerns. Christian ethics was born during the days in which the contrast between the vast prosperity of the industrial barons and the vast suffering of those who worked for them became unbearable. The moral concerns that drove early Christian ethics helped contribute to the regulation of industrialization’s excesses during the Progressive Era. The same social compassion supported the creation of a modest social safety net during the Depression and New Deal era.
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