http://currentsoffaith.com Ruminations on culture, religion, and politics from diverse perspectives of faith. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:04:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://currentsoffaith.com/2010/08/09/theological-reminiscences/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2010/08/09/theological-reminiscences/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:33:22 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=99 Off and on for years I have considered writing something autobiographical. Many of the people who live in my retirement community, Pilgrim Place, do so, as do some of my academic peers. But I have repeatedly postponed such an enterprise for a variety of reasons and might easily have kept postponing until my ability to carry it out was long gone. Current opportunities and needs always seemed more important. Indeed, I was not sure of what use any autobiography I might write would be.

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2010/08/09/theological-reminiscences/feed/ 4 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/06/11/is-it-time-for-candor-speaking-out-on-israel-and-palestine/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/06/11/is-it-time-for-candor-speaking-out-on-israel-and-palestine/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:00:58 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=53 For a process theologian, one might suppose, it is always time for candor. But from the process perspective, various desiderata should always be considered. When candor is cruel or dangerous, it may have to be set aside, at least for a while. On the other hand, when candor is too long postponed, the values for [...]

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]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/05/15/sounding-the-alarm/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/22/2008-earth-day-message/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/22/2008-earth-day-message/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:00:49 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=49 Not since Earth Day 1970 has there been one that bore more promise. 1970 was the year when the American public recognized that the human treatment of the rest of the world was a matter of profound importance. In the following years Congress past significant legislation and Nixon signed it into law. No doubt there [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/22/2008-earth-day-message/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/14/the-end-of-global-hegemony/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/14/the-end-of-global-hegemony/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:00:55 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=51 It is ironic that just as the neo-conservatives have visibly asserted American global rule, and also made us aware that from the beginning American foreign policy has been imperialist in nature, our global reach is receding. Our ability to shape human history is dramatically declining. Since process theologians can never support imperialism, the end of [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/14/the-end-of-global-hegemony/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/04/on-power/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/04/on-power/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:26 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=50 We all want power. We should not be ashamed of that. Jesus was very powerful, and so were Socrates and Buddha. The question is, what kind of power? Do we want the power to control and limit others, even to injure or kill them? That is not the power embodied in Jesus, Socrates, or Buddha. Their power [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/04/04/on-power/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2006/08/21/another-crisis-real-or-concocted/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2006/08/21/another-crisis-real-or-concocted/#comments Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:43:10 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://www.currentsoffaith.com/2006/08/21/another-crisis-real-or-concocted/ Whitehead told us more than once that it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.  He added that truth adds to interest.  I would add that interest adds to the importance of the question whether the proposition is true. I have long believed that the war on terror is [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2006/08/21/another-crisis-real-or-concocted/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2006/07/24/immigration-in-wider-perspective/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2006/07/24/immigration-in-wider-perspective/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:57:10 +0000 John B. Cobb, Jr. http://www.currentsoffaith.com/2006/07/24/immigration-in-wider-perspective/ Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead told us that morality is largely a matter of the breadth of consideration of the consequences of an action. He also made clear that issues should be viewed in as wide a context as possible. Judged by these principles, we Americans are not doing well. Last year this nation was guided [...]

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