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2017-09-13T10:02:40-04:00

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Orwell, Atwood, Butler: Reading for Resistance & Resilience in the Age of Trump

Last updated on: September 13, 2017 at 10:02 am By Carl Gregg

This summer at the congregation where I serve as minister, we hosted a three-part book discussion series on “Reading for Resistance & Resilience.” When I first mentioned this idea in the spring to my wife Magin, who is an English professor, she was intrigued. But she also cautioned that George Orwell’s 1984, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents “might be the most depressing list of beach reading I’ve ever heard.” In retrospect, from the insights that... Read more

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2017-08-23T13:27:03-04:00

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Jungian Reflections on Jesus from the “Second Half of Life”

Last updated on: August 23, 2017 at 1:27 pm By Carl Gregg

Fourteen years ago, I moved to Louisiana to serve as the Associate Pastor in a progressive Christian congregation. I loved the seven years I spent there, but I have now been away from Louisiana for exactly the same number of years that I was here. That passage of time was in my mind as I reflected on the lectionary passage which inspired this post (Matthew 10:5-16), and I would like to share with you some of how I interpret this piece of Christian... Read more

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2017-08-18T11:45:54-04:00

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Octopuses & Other Minds: “The Deep Origins of Consciousness”

Last updated on: August 18, 2017 at 11:45 am By Carl Gregg

This post is a continuation of my topic yesterday on “What Do Animals Think & Feel?“ Regarding the implications of common ancestry and the tree of life, the best book I have read recently is Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2016) by Peter Godfrey-Smith, a philosophy professor at the City University of New York. Although we only have to go back six million years to find the common ancestor... Read more

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2017-08-23T08:46:38-04:00

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What Do Animals Think & Feel?

Last updated on: August 23, 2017 at 8:46 am By Carl Gregg

2,500 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Protagoras (c. 490 – c. 420 BCE) declared that “Man is the measure of all things” (Safina 20). On one hand, it is understandable that we humans have often declared that—surprise!—we are the best universal standard. On the other hand, a human-centric worldview was easier to defend intellectually two-and-a-half millennia ago: before Copernicus showed us that we humans are not at the center of the universe, but merely on the third rock from... Read more

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2017-08-11T09:49:24-04:00

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Is Your Religion “Grown up?”

Last updated on: August 11, 2017 at 9:49 am By Carl Gregg

My post yesterday was on “waking up” into different states of consciousness. My focus today is on the second of Ken Wilber’s four touchstones: “growing up” by progressing through stages of development (56) One related dictum about the importance of different stages of development is that, “We do not see the world simply as it is; rather, we see the world as we are.” In other words, as we “grow up,” both individuals and societies have the potential to pass through various... Read more

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2017-08-11T09:50:23-04:00

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What Does It Mean to “Wake up” or “Get Enlightened”?

Last updated on: August 11, 2017 at 9:50 am By Carl Gregg

Ken Wilber (1949-) is a contemporary American philosopher who has written a host of books related to what he calls Integral Theory. Wilber has a gift for synthesizing information across diverse fields of studies, and then designing helpful charts and graphs depicting how various intersecting systems can mutually inform one another. Along these lines, what might a “religion of the future” look like? What might it mean to practice a spirituality that takes seriously the paradigm-shifting discoveries of Copernicus, Darwin, Freud,... Read more

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2017-07-21T11:15:32-04:00

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Dissent: For Such a Time as This

Last updated on: July 21, 2017 at 11:15 am By Carl Gregg

(This post is a continuation of yesterday’s theme of “Dissent.”) When considering the ongoing struggle in this country to genuinely achieve peace, liberty, and justice for all (not merely for some), it is vital to remember that in the beginning of our nation, the deep injustice of slavery was inked into our Constitution. Article I, Section 2 calculates membership in the U.S. House of Representatives based on counting enslaved human beings as “three-fifths” of a person. And Article I, Section... Read more

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2017-07-21T10:18:38-04:00

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Dissent

Last updated on: July 21, 2017 at 10:18 am By Carl Gregg

In my tradition of Unitarian Universalism, it is significant to recall that this past Wednesday was the 200th anniversary of the birthday of our Unitarian ancestor Henry David Thoreau, who was born on July 12, 1817. Among many examples of dissent in Thoreau’s life, the most famous is that at age twenty-nine, during his time living in a cabin he built at Walden Pond, Thoreau spent the night in jail for nonpayment of a poll tax to protest the use... Read more

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2017-07-14T10:33:13-04:00

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Robots (Not Immigrants) Are Coming for Your Job: Promise & Peril of Dataism as Religion

Last updated on: July 14, 2017 at 10:33 am By Carl Gregg

(This post is a continuation of yesterday’s post on “A Brief History of Tomorrow”: What Apple, Facebook, & Google Don’t Want You to Know, inspired by Yuval Harari’s book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.) There are positive benefits of big data. Public monitoring based on Google searches, called “Google Flu Trends,” can already give a warning about flu outbreaks “ten days before traditional health services.” It could be even more accurate, of course, if Google also searched private emails for... Read more

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2017-07-26T06:52:50-04:00

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“A Brief History of Tomorrow”: What Apple, Facebook, & Google Don’t Want You to Know

Last updated on: July 26, 2017 at 6:52 am By Carl Gregg

I have posted previously about the bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari, a professor of world history. His book wrestles with how we humans reached our present state. To take just one data point, a mere 150,000 years ago, there were approximately one million humans alive on earth. Today there are more than 7.3 billion of us, with more than one new human being added to the total each second! So what does the future... Read more

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