Category Archives: Saved CRCVoices Posts

How Confessions Relocate Law

Posted on June 3, 2016 by PaulVK

It Gets Better Whichever way you go on LGBTQ you can’t simply deny or avoid stories or judgments like these. For so many people these stories just expose the judgment of the tellers as self evident, but if you embrace … Continue reading →

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On the Convenience of Hating Slave Holders

Posted on May 4, 2016 by PaulVK

I think there is a certain convenient self-righteousness to our regard of slave owners. We abhor the destruction of the whales prior to the invention of kerosene imagining whalers to be scourges of the earth while thinking nothing of everyone … Continue reading →

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A few thoughts for today on the CRC and the Same Sex Marriage Conversation

Posted on January 14, 2016 by PaulVK

This conversation heated up on Voices again. These are a few thoughts for today. 1. There were a number of possible paths that the Study committee could have taken. They choose to give guidelines to outline the implied limits of … Continue reading →

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Migrants and the Shape of the World to Come

Posted on September 5, 2015 by PaulVK

I originally wrote this for Calvin-in-Common Also this from another conservative pundit. http://theweek.com/articles/574295/appeal-trump-why-immigration-may-defining-issue-21st-century While most of us worry about global climate change, the not-disconnected-anxiety people-who-love-people aren’t paying attention to is the question of what will become of the unskilled poor … Continue reading →

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Planet Fitness and Obama’s Christianity

Posted on March 13, 2015 by PaulVK

Responding to a thread in CRC Voices on this piece on President Obama’s Christianity Conversation turned to the CRC Office of Social Justice I noted the Planet Fitness dust-up in Midland Michigan and CS Lewis’s piece on Christians and politics. … Continue reading →

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“Roots” of Terrorism

Posted on February 20, 2015 by PaulVK

Once we agree that the military solution is not only problematic but futile (as it often is) the conversation seeks causes in the hopes of finding remedies. Peter Bergen looked at Obama’s last speech. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/opinion/bergen-terrorism-root-causes/index.html The Obama administration this week … Continue reading →

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Can the CRC Survive the American Empire?

Posted on January 14, 2015 by PaulVK

I wrote this for a discussion on Calvin-in-Common The CRC used to fold more of its own paper. Most CRC paper today seems to come pre-folded.  I’ve been reading an interesting dual biography on Gandhi and Churchill. It’s been enlightening. … Continue reading →

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Where can Culture Making Power be found in the CRC today or are others simply folding our paper for us?

Posted on January 2, 2015 by PaulVK

Here’s a recent posting from the Executive Director. Did anyone read it? I made a link to track what the ED posts. http://www.thebanner.org/bio/steven-timmermans I’m not criticizing the ED (I obviously had a hand in selecting him and I think we got … Continue reading →

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CRC Voices Conversation on Torture

Posted on December 15, 2014 by PaulVK

My contribution to the discussion on why this is an important issue. Sorry I haven’t been able to post on this thread, but I’ve read it. Busy weekend. A few points. 1. Definition: Again, like the famous Supreme court justice … Continue reading →

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Hobby Lobby and how Religion Doesn’t Fit in the Modern World

Posted on July 7, 2014 by PaulVK

This piece notes the rush of corporations looking for coverage in the Hobby Lobby fallout. It prompts a questions for me. 1. Are all of these companies going to opt out of ALL contraception or only the Roman Catholics? 2. Were … Continue reading →

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