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How Religion Can Be Used to Build a New Future
to reclaiming the prophetic tradition and working with multi-faith partners to build a society of equity and equality, compassion and justice.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
The crucial question, then, is this: Is there any help to be found in the religion of Jesus that can be of value here? It is utterly beside the point to examine here what the religion of Jesus suggests to those who would be helpful to the disinherited. That is ever in the nature of special pleading. No man wants to be the object of his fellow’s pit
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Jules Evans defined a religion as a system that binds us in religio: a kind of sacredness, obligation, faith and “cosmic certainty” towards a particular set of precepts. Those outside the religio are framed as “existential threats”, with a strong in-out dynamic bound by a common transcendent ideal.