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amoral, atheism, empire, religion, sharon-welch
Is religion amoral?
07.02.07 | Permalink | 9 CommentsBack to Sharon Welch in After Empire. An atheist, she writes: What, then, is the religious? This is the name we give to those encounters and energies that are constitutive but amoral, those encounters that are vivid, compelling, and meaningful, but fragile. (Page 30.) I’m still chewing on that.
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apathy, condemnation, empire, joy, sharon-welch, social-justice
Justice: Condemnation versus joy
06.27.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Justice: Condemnation versus joyI picked up a copy of Sharon Welch’s After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace at GA, and I’m slowly working my way through it. From page five: What I know in my soul I learned from the lives of my mother and father: that it is possible to work for justice without […]
