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First Things from 1998

Like the liberals, the radicals are both absolutists and relativists, but about different matters. They absolutize a commitment to liberation, emancipation, and empowerment. Equally absolute is the privileged position of designated victims of oppression. In some radical circles we can detect that a working doctrine of divine revelation has crept back into their discourse, where certain experiences of oppression and liberation are taken as epiphanies or as visible signs of the reign of God, and anything that questions the truth embedded in these experiences must be suppressed. On the other hand, radicals insist, we should not suppress the diverse convictions, ideologies, theories, and discourses of the new included groups. They become the real focus of pluralism as we try to foster different voices, experiences, readings, and proposals within the carefully circumscribed boundaries.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/father-albert-cutie-catholic-priest-catholic-church/story?id=12536834

Experimental Theology

Wesley Hill

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/03/indiana-spice-pastor-busted-for-running-synthetic-marijuana-drug-ring.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/02/how-to-tell-if-other-people-think-youre-hot-according-to-science/

The crux of this technique is that people think about themselves in very different ways than they think about other people. They tend to scrutinize themselves at an incredibly close level of detail, much more closely than they examine the actions or appearance of others.

This is kind of worrying, because so much of our public policy is based on the idea that people can imagine what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes. And that myth is so widespread that people are very confident about their ability to do so. “The problem we find over and over again in our data on these social cognition studies, the problem isn’t incompetence, it’s not that people are idiots, it’s that they’re overconfident. The problem is hubris,” Epley says.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/the-outgroup-and-its-errors/

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/evetushnet/2016/04/four-kinds-of-argument-on-true-fulfillment-for-gay-christians.html

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