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“Proof of Heaven”
“Proof of Heaven” We are in Riverside, California, having arrived from Phoenix, Arizona, where we had a five-minute TV appearance on Pat McMahon’s show, The Morning Scramble. Jerry had had his first radio interview with Pat, an hour-long substantive conversation … Continue reading
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Final Proofs
Final Proofs This week, amid a flurry of barely-caught typos, fonts of the wrong shade and misplaced style cues, Jerry, I, and his priceless crew of teammates finished going over the final set of proofs that go to the printer. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Alexandria VA, answered prayer, answering the call, author, belief, Bible movies, couples, creation, Creator, Divine communication, Divine messenger, Divine Presence, Divine summons, doubt, ego needs, empirical evidence, evidence, Faith, Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, getting married, getting to yes, God's audible voice, God's audible words, God's voice, God's words, higher ed organizations, human responsiveness, humility, identity, imagination, individuality, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", level-headedness, love, maintaining identity, marriage proposals, married life, newlyweds, ordinary life, ordinary world, philosopher, prayer, proofreading, proofs, prophet, protocol, publication, publication process, publishing, Q&A, quest, real life, reality check, receptivity, relationships, religion, Romantic Love, sacred, secularism, skepticism, spiritual growth, spiritual seekers, theism, Washington life, writers
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“Living in History”
“Living in History” That’s a theme of mine, though it’s easier to give the theme a name than to say exactly what it means. I can hone in on it by at least by saying what it’s not. If you … Continue reading
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“Confessions of a Young Philosopher”
“Confessions of a Young Philosopher” These days I am bringing to final form a new book titled, Confessions of a Young Philosopher. So what’s the “confession” part? And what’s the “philosopher” part? Why do I give the book that name? … Continue reading
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Tagged accusers, apology, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ayaan Hirsi Ali "Nomad", Azar Nafisi, Azar Nafisi "Reading Lolita in Tehran", biblical persons, biblical time, change agents, Christian Europe, classical era, concubines, confession, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, counter-examples, crimes, defense, dissent, embodied ideas, evidence, Feminism, Greco-Roman antiquity, Hegel "Reason in History", identity, Latin civilization, living dialectically, living your truth, Manicheanism, menacing, misdeeds, missteps, Mona Eltahawy, Mona Eltahawy "Headscarves and Hymens", Muslim women, Neo-Platonism, Noni Darwish, Noni Darwish "Now They Call Me Infidel", paradigm, persona, Plato, Plato "The Apology", Qanta Ahmed, Qanta Ahmed "In The Land of Invisible Women", Rafia Zakaria, Rafia Zakaria "The Upstairs Wife", repression, Roman circuses, secrets, self-transformation, social mask, social risk, spiritual autobiography, St. Augustine, St. Augustine "Confessions", truth and falsity, truth seeker, woman philosopher, women heroes, women's aculturation, world-historical figures
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Dialogues with Local Quakers
Dialogues with Local Quakers Since the fall, a small group of Quakers has held what they call a “vigil” once a week in the central square of our small town. They hold up placards that demand “Justice for” or “Freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged "coefficient of adversity", A.J. Muste, Alveda King, Ammon Hennacy, Anti-Israel demonstration, anti-semitism, Bayard Rustin, Catholic Worker Movement, character, complexity, contested fact, contests, controversy, courts of law, diplomacy, Dorothy Day, evidence, fairness, freedom, Galahad, Galilee, George Fox, hatred, heroes, Holy Grail, Israel, Jesus, judges, juries, justice and injustice, Martin Luther King Jr., negotiation, Oppressed, Oppressor, Palestine, prosecutors, Quakers, quests, schoolyard insults, Society of Friends, soul, spirit, testimony, unfairness, vigil, vigilantes, War Resisters' League
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“Tenderness”
“Tenderness” There is a southern black woman, about two generations after slavery, who figures as the heroine in a novel by Zora Neale Hurston. In the scene from which the lines below are taken, she has met a man who … Continue reading
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Tagged "Five Variations on the Theme of Japanese Painting", "Leo's Orphans: A Survivor's Musings on the Power of Protective Tenderness", "Their Eyes Were Watching God", 613 mitzvot, Abigail L. Rosenthal, American novel, awareness, black women, Christian clergy, Christianity, commandments, conflict resolution, conformism, evidence, Exodus, heroine, injuries, interfaith, Israelites, Japan, Jewish observance, judgementalism, Leo Bronstein, living the moment, Maimonides, marital relations, mindfulness, Nazi genocide, novel, Passover, past lives, peer pressure, Rabbi, Reform Judaism, reincarnation, Shoah, shunning, slavery, Terror, The South, unleavened bread, Yom ha Shoah, zen, Zora Neale Hurston
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