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Larry Yang • Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704) is the apostle of the Revolution of 1688, the most moderate and the most successful of all revolutions.

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

We need deliberative spaces that allow people to truly listen to one another and to be heard, to recognise and acknowledge each other, even in difference, to grapple with complexity and spark curiosity – in ideas as well as in why others believe what they do; to have empathy and also to be able to do the hard work of finding common ground on the sh... See more

Darrell Bouldin • Assembly required - RSA Comment

John Paul II held a different view. He refused to submit to the tyranny of the way things are. And because of that, he could ignite a revolution of conscience throughout Central and Eastern Europe that would eventually cut through the seemingly permanent and impermeable Berlin Wall.

George Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

But he did challenge some of the core propensities of modernity. To give Rosa Charles Taylor’s language, as we have done with Barth, he saw that conceding to the closed structures and spins of the immanent frame couldn’t release us from the alienation that modernity produces.10 The immanent frame needed to be opened.

Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline

That would be the triumph of what might be called a Christianity without God.

Alain Badiou • The True Life

The Many Altars of Modernity: Toward a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age

Peter L. Berger

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the discussions that you describe in that classroom about good and evil and how to be moral, and how to engage difference and how to engage serious, complex questions and disagreement, where good and evil are not at all clear, or what to do with that, it all feels so resonant with, I think, the questions we know that are with us, not just in this c... See more

Ariel Burger • Ariel Burger — Be a Blessing | The On Being Project

contemporary societies seem to care about three things: national prosperity, social cohesion and stability, and personal well-being. But the personal attitudes that will lead towards these three ‘goods’ are not eternal: they depend on the nature of the world. So even if those three aspirations are taken for granted, educational values — the traits ... See more