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    Time is on my side

    My little boy goes back to day care the first week of August; my classes start the last week.  This gives me three weeks of unscheduled time.  Here is how I plan on using that time: Not really.  Here’s how I really plan on spending my time: 1) Prepare for my classes.  I’ll be teaching seven classes on four subjects in three formats starting on the 23rd.  To do that well, I’ll have...
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Time is on my side

Jul 28th

Posted by Henry Imler in Personal

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My little boy goes back to day care the first week of August; my classes start the last week.  This gives me three weeks of unscheduled time.  Here is how I plan on using that time:

Bellah on Community and Individualism

Jul 15th

Posted by Henry Imler in Featured

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We find ourselves not independently of other people and institutions but through them. We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with others in work, love, and learning. All of our activity goes on in relationships, groups, associations, and communities ordered by institutional structures and interpreted by cultural patterns of meaning…
We are part of a larger whole that we can neither forget nor imagine in our own image without paying a high price.

If we are not to have a self that hangs in the void, slowly twisting in the wind, these are issues we cannot ignore. – Robert Bellah

The Unintended Consequences of Sexual Sin

May 27th

Posted by Henry Imler in Body

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Clement of Alexandria, on the unintended side effects of sexual sin:
“Fathers, forgetting about their children who have been exposed, often unknowingly have intercourse with a son that has debauched himself and with daughters who are prostitutes.”[1]
Notes:
Clement of Alexandria, 2.276, 195CE [↩]Scridb filter

A God on Our Side

Dec 29th

Posted by Henry Imler in Government

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Undoubtedly, part of the reason evangelicals accept [the claim that God is uniquely on the side of the USA] is the fact that fallen humans have always tended to fuse religious and nationalistic and tribal interests.  We want to believe that God is on our side, supports our causes, protects our interests, and ensures our [...]