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What America’s immigrants looked like when they arrived on Ellis Island
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Oprah “Belief” mini-series links
- Diana Butler Bass in WaPo
- Dreher: The Great Oprahstasy
- Ancient Faith Radio (Orthodox) (three kinds of “belief”)
As he says in Believing: An Historical Perspective, belief once referred to our commitment to a manifest truth. Summarizing Smith’s summary, “I believe in God” meant “Given the reality of God, I’m with him. I trust in that reality and live accordingly.” It’s taking our subjective experience and aligning it with an objective fact. Call this believing 1.
In the seventeenth century, things began turning. The emphasis moved from trust to assertion. “I believe in God” now meant “Given the doubts some people have about the matter, I have decided for myself that, yes, God exists.” It’s primarily about asserting a contested fact. Call this believing 2.
In that regard, contra Bass, we’re closer to 2 than 1. But what’s really going on is that’ve moved onto what we can call believing 3, which is not about aligning our subjective experience with an objective fact—like subscribing to a creed in the older sense of the practice—but elevating our subjective experience to something approaching objective fact.
Religious Practice in America and Around the World: A Conversation With Mark Noll | Insights: Scholarly Work at the John W. Kluge Center
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Complementarianism, Simone de Beauvoir, and Judith Butler: A Reading
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Mutual of Oprah’s Wild Kingdom and the Limits of the Buffered Self
Mutual of Oprah’s Wild Kingdom
I’ve watched some of Oprah’s miniseries.
The most interesting thing for me to watch, however, is the chair we are invited to sit down with her created by the presentation. My best analogy so far for it is the show I faithfully watched as a child as we broke our Sabbath TV fast after church on Sunday nights. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. Every Sunday night I got a tour of this animal and that, and every now and then Jim would leave the confines of civilization, get down into the habitat with the animals and something might happen. The viewers, of course, watched from the safety of our living rooms.
In some ways Oprah is our Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler rolled up into one and the religious diversity of humanity is the Wild Kingdom.
What You Have to Implicitly Believe to Make the Show Work Continue reading →