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community, conjunctive faith, faith, james-fowler
Disciplined openness and the reality of community
From James Fowler: Conjunctive faith includes a genuine openness to the truths of traditions and communities other than one’s own. This openness is not to be equated with a relativistic agnosticism (literally, a “not knowing”), however. Rather, it is a disciplined openness to the truths of those who are “other,” based precisely on the experience […]
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community, embrace, miroslav-volf, sermon, welcome
Sermon uploaded: The spirituality of welcome
06.10.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI preached this morning for the first time in years, and I had a ball. I just posted the sermon over at Open the Doors. Go have a gander and let me know what you think. New: The mp3 file is up here.
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community, happiness, ubuntu
How to build ubuntu
The Journey has it nailed: “. . .aiming for community is a bit like aiming for happiness. It’s not a goal in itself. We find happiness as an incidental by-product of pursuing love, justice, hospitality, and generosity. When you aim at happiness, you are bound to miss it. Likewise with community. It’s not our goal. […]
