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DISCUSSION November 10: Soul Food and Addiction in the Media
The Problem:
1) Yes, I find soul food in the media. So do you. Where?
2) Watching the news on TV is anxiety producing. Is this your experience?
3) Are cell phones a new form of addiction?
4) Halloween and Christmas are seasons of commercial kitsch: Mikey mouse and Santa Claus are our collective archetypes. Where do you find celebrations of beauty and inner peace?
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COMING DISCUSSIONS:
The church as institution
ARTICLES OF THE MONTH:
Celebrating Marriage – Is it time to adapt? by Francis BernaLiberating Conscience: An End to Magisterial Authoritarianism by Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler
"Apologetics as a Critical Feature of Catechesis" by Daniel Lloyd
REFLECTIONS ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIFE, CHURCH, OR SOCIETY:
Personal experiences - Social and political issues - Church as community and institution
"In Pursuit of the Common Good" by Peter Drilling -
"A Second Look at the Prosperity Gospel" by Simon Aihiokhai - "Are science and religion enemies?" by Dan Finucane -
"What We Lutherans Can Learn from Roman Catholics" by David VonSchlichten. -
"Baptist Seminary Life" by Steve W. Lemke.
PRESSING ISSUES IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY
Liberating Conscience: An End to Magisterial Authoritarianism by Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler
Christopher Denny: "The Ascetic Corrective."
Gerald Vigna: To Reform the Liturgy, Reform the Church