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Advance Directives and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Past United Church of Canada Moderator Jordan Cantwell’s 2016 personal submission to a Joint Parliamentary Committee examining Medical...
argualtieri33
Jul 6, 20203 min read
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Jesus in the Gospels and Philosophical Anthropology
One reads blogs, I suppose, in the hope of garnering an occasional illuminating or useful fragment of information. Now I turn the matter...
argualtieri33
Jun 15, 20202 min read
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Quaestiones disputatae
The predominant New Age and Spiritual But Not Religious writings in a United Church of Canada publication in recent times suggest a naïve...
argualtieri33
Jun 1, 20203 min read
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Justification of Political Zionism
I'm chagrined to look back half a century to acknowledge how off-base I may have been in interpreting the Zionist legitimation of the...
argualtieri33
May 15, 20203 min read
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The weaponization of anti-Semitism
Of growing weight in the Palestine/Israel conflict is the political-Zionist recourse to the weapon of anti-Semitism. There is no doubt...
argualtieri33
May 1, 20202 min read
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Palestine and Israel
Recently I wrote to my daughters indicating I wanted a line added to my obituary (I am in my ninetieth year, so it may be needed sooner...
argualtieri33
Apr 15, 20204 min read
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On substitutionary atonement
It seems there is a growing tendency on the part of advocates of “progressive” Christianity to attack traditional Christian doctrine at...
argualtieri33
Apr 10, 20202 min read
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Jean Vanier and how the mighty have fallen
This blog was written in late February, 2020, before the world's attention was diverted to the Covid-19 pandemic. I am going ahead with...
argualtieri33
Apr 3, 20203 min read
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Responding to Covid-19
How are you responding to the Covid-19 pandemic? The answer undoubtedly depends on the identity of the “you.” If you are the offspring of...
argualtieri33
Mar 17, 20203 min read
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How to settle an estate
I want to explore two different strategies for bequeathing one’s assets to subsequent generations. One we may call the “mathematical...
argualtieri33
Mar 8, 20202 min read
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What size backpack does Jesus use?
I’ve been on a Lawrence of Arabia reading jag lately; I should say re-reading, since none of the ten biographies I have looked at is new....
argualtieri33
Feb 18, 20203 min read
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Loving and forgiving
What does it mean to forgive another? First it entails recognition that a wrong and damaging deed has been done against you. Your money...
argualtieri33
Feb 4, 20203 min read
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Progressive Christianity
What is "progressive Christianity"? The definition of progressive Christianity is clear enough if we emphasize its provenance in the...
argualtieri33
Jan 1, 20202 min read
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Rivers and banks
The following analogy may help clarify the relation between persons’ perceptions of how things really are in the world and the...
argualtieri33
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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Following Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount
It has become a commonplace mantra nowadays to declare “Down with Doctrine” — doctrine meaning here rationally formulated beliefs which...
argualtieri33
Nov 15, 20193 min read
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Is Christianity a simple religion (or mixed up)?
On one level, Christian faith is such a simple thing. But is it, really? A woman used to visit our small church to sing and to teach a...
argualtieri33
Nov 1, 20193 min read
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Can a Christian (not) be a nationalist?
There are those who think nationalism is a bad thing and needs to be strongly opposed. President Macron of France, in his Remembrance Day...
argualtieri33
Oct 18, 20193 min read
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Does the church have a political function?
Having discovered that neither road conditions not availability of gas stations across Yugoslavia would permit the continuation of our...
argualtieri33
Oct 1, 20193 min read
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The Meaning of meaning
In contemporary discussion about religion one of the most commonly used words is “meaning” – probably considerably more than “God.” What...
argualtieri33
Sep 5, 20192 min read
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Who and where is God?
It all started as a gentle theological disputation but ended with one of the disputants in tears. The point of departure was a discussion...
argualtieri33
May 25, 20192 min read
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