Being Christian in Education, reflecting on Christian professional practice in a secular worldThe article investigates the meaning of temperance by noting some cultural assumptions, raising the question as to why this classical virtue has largely disappeared from modern ethical discourse. By means of ...
Why I’m a Christian (And Continue to Suck at Being One) Garrett Rapp of the band, The Color Morale, once shared with me about the day he walked into youth group and never returned when he was asked to burn his “secular” albums. I remember that day too. My friend Derek and I ...
modern man, and enable the Church to cooperate in the construction of a peaceful and tolerant world in which Catholics could maintain personal and religious integrity as citizens of a free and open society. They would serve God by serving man, acting as a leaven and transforming hearts and ...
Nietzsche is responsible for popularizing a moral philosophy that was antithetical in every way possible to conventional European (Christian) morality. I can attest that he is to
What is needed instead is a change of 'being.' Whatever we call the philosophy of religion, it owes its conception to the European Enlightenment, and the latter, its understanding of the modern subject to Christian imperialism and the colonial enterprise. How can it ever become an inclusive ...
We find that secular, non-religious individuals give greater weight to health-related aspects and to freedom of choice. An interesting finding is the difference between the two groups in their rating of the aspect of spirituality and connection to God. For self-reported religious individuals, this...
aAlthough nominally a Christian holiday, Christmas is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians worldwide, and many of its popular celebratory customs have pre-Christian or secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift-giving, music, an exchange of ...
Furthermore, while there is increasing engagement in the academic literature with the roles of faith for promoting a secular framing of MHPSS, such as a rights-based approach, there remains a lack of engagement with faith as an end in itself for supportive care. Discussions around the roles of...
(2 Cor. 6:10 ESV). Paul both acknowledged his pain and made a choice to trust Jesus that his loss wouldn’t be the final word. They end the word study of joy with this statement, “Christian joy is a profound decision of faith and hope in the power of Jesus’ own life and love...
While the word 'spirituality' historically arises from a Christian milieu (Principe 1983), it has been applied to non-Christian religions (e.g. Buddhism) and to non-religious orientations such as 'secular spirituality' (Jespers 2011; van Ness 1996). Such applications inevitably raise questions ...