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Up we go.

Philocrites is now a “wiggly worm” in the blogging ecosystem.

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Conflict

Reasons.

Thomas L. Friedman writes that “there were actually four reasons for this war: the real reason, the right reason, the moral reason and the stated reason”

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Theology

More chutney, please!

“Our god is not a braggart, is not needy, does not require worship, does not claim credit.”

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Liberalism

Relativism or pluralism?

“Values may easily clash within the breast of a single individual; and it does not follow that, if they do, some must be true and others false.”

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Theology

Modern theology 101.

My own theological thinking is probably a some kind of process-postliberal hybrid.

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Theology Unitarian Universalism

We must not postulate simplicity.

What Unitarian Universalism needs isn’t traditional religious language tossed into the Principles like croutons in a salad.

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Culture

Emerson watch.

George Scialabba on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s life and legacy.

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Conflict Human Rights

Rwanda reloaded.

The horrible story is playing out again in the Congo.

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Liberalism

It isn’t 1933.

When we think that anyone to our right is quasi-fascist — and we say so! — we’re setting ourselves up to fail dramatically.

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Economics

Cambrich, Mass.

“Cambridge had the highest concentration of million-dollar homes of all large cities in the nation.”