09.07.08
Posted in Religion at 7:17 pm by Karl
The Believers and Doubters group at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church has been in existence for more than thirty-five years. The group’s name is meant to connote its openness and acceptance of differing points of view, based on the understanding that we’re each at different stages on the faith journey. Our motto is “Faith seeking understanding.”
As is to be expected, over the span of nearly 40 years of existence, members and teachers have come and gone. The first leader of the group (which was not then known by its current moniker) was Dr. Ernest Plata, formerly a researcher with the US National Institutes of Health. Plata was followed by Sligo pastors M. Dale Hannah, James J. Londis and Jan Daffern. Our current group leader is Dr. Barry Casey, (formerly a professor in the communications department at Columbia Union College).
The blog provides a forum for members of the group to continue their Saturday morning conversations. It’s a place for members and others to provide personal responses to books with religious, ethical, moral, spiritual themes which the group or individual contributor is reading. It may also be used to discuss contemporary issues in economics, popular culture, law or politics which may impinge on the practice of religious faith, ethics or morality.
The site’s content and the views expressed are those of members of Believers and Doubters or the persons commenting on blog posts. As such, they do not necessarily represent the views or beliefs of the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church or affiliated organizations.
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Posted in Religion at 6:25 pm by Karl
I just finished reading Monte Sahlin’s recent blog reacting to the speech by the Republican nominee for vice president belittling Barack Obama’s community organizer role. Following is a comment I posted in response:
“Ms. Palin’s rant has to be seen as of a piece with the Republican effort to belittle Barack Obama’s qualification to be president. Clearly, the experience argument has not been working, for as Obama and many others have observed, of what value is so-called experience if one acts without judgement and discretion. I think the Bay of Pigs and Iraq invasion are cautionary tales in this regard. Wisdom is not necessarily a function of age; an old fool is as much a fool as a young one. The other little-remarked aspect of the over-the-top rhetoric is its essential anti-intellectual quality. So, Obama is elitist (another name of intellectual) they say. It would be all laughable, but for the fact that this country faces serious domestic challenges and a very serious erosion of stature and influence in international councils which are so essential to any serious effort to confront global problems.”
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09.06.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:47 pm by Karl
I’ve had to recreate this blog, because the previous one was inadvertently deleted. To be honest, the deletion was the result of impatience and a bit of ignorance for good measure; I’m using a blogging tool that I’m not as conversant with as one needs to be–end of confession.
Anyway, the purpose for creating the blog remains the same as before: to provide a forum for continuing our Saturday morning conversations. It’s a place for us to provide personal responses to books the group or individual contributor is reading about religious, ethical, moral or spiritual matters.[Karl]
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