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January 10, 2010 Dear People Whom God Loves, SPECIAL INVITATION Have you been hurt by bishops, priests, deacons, sisters, brothers or anyone else in a leadership position in the church?
If so I invite you to join us. Have you hurt others in the church or not in the church?
If so I invite you to join […]

October 25, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, RELIGION IN A NEW CULTURE III We continue to work with the image of God as Love. God is spirit and while our human loves give us a pointer to Love, they fall short. We should therefore not conclude that Love works just like human love works. […]

October 18, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, RELIGION IN A NEW CULTURE II I think we start out thinking of God as a great being up in the sky. It probably was necessary that we start out like that. Our image was likely of someone like us human beings but being all powerful and […]

October 11, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, RELIGION IN A NEW CULTURE I I just started reading a long and dense book entitled A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. One sentence caught my eye. He reminded me that in the year 1500, it was almost impossible not to believe in God. In the year […]

September 13, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, DANGERS OF RATIONAL CONTROL For the foundation of these insights, I am indebted to Charles Taylor in his book A Secular Age. The thoughts I present are mine. We are inclined too often to divide our humanness into the higher and lower parts. The rational, i.e. reason […]

September 6, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, IS IT GOOD TO BE GODLY I begin by quoting Sebastean Moore from his book The Contagion of Jesus p. 10. There are two kinds of conversion. There is the conversion of the godless to God and there is the conversion of the godly to the realization […]

August 30, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, DANGER OF BEING LEFT OR RIGHT Here are my thoughts about the thinking of Charles Peguy as found in the book
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. Peguy was deeply traditional and deeply creative. He drove both the left and the right crazy. He also maintained connections with […]

August 23, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, RELIGION & VIOLENCE II We have seen how religious believers easily cling tightly to causes seen as highly moral and ethical. The same can be said for those who are not religious believers. Moral sensibility is not confined to religious believers. For example, some people who do […]

August 16, 2009 Dear People Whom God Loves, RELIGION and VIOLENCE I The following thoughts are mine, but they are based on the book by Charles Taylor, A Secular Age. I have often seen the connection between religion and violence. It cuts across all religions. For the Catholic Church, the Spanish Inquisition and the crusades […]