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Tag: Allan R. Bevere

  • Politics Moment: Rejecting the Liberal and Conservative Labels

    Energion owner Henry Neufeld interviews Allan R. Bevere, author of The Politics of Witness and the just released Colossians & Philemon: A Participatory Study Guide on the U. S. election and our response to it. This was recorded on Friday, July 15, 2016, before the coup attempt in Turkey, but the attack in Nice and relations between law enforcement and members of the community in the United States were included. Allan served for some time as a police chaplain.
     

  • Allan Bevere: Your Confirmation Bias is Showing

    Confirmation Bias affects all of us. Nowhere is confirmation bias exhibited more clearly than on social media, such as Facebook. Those on the conservative end of the theological and/or political spectrum tend to post links to stories that make their side look good as well as posting things that cast aspersions and even evil on those with whom they disagree. They also tend to ignore that information that counts against their views on various issues. Those on the liberal end of the theological and/or political spectrum do the same thing. (I have suggested before that the modern conservative/liberal spectrum is incoherent, but that’s another post for another time.)

    Read the rest on Allan’s blog at Allan R. Bevere: Faith Seeking Understanding.

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  • Allan R. Bevere: Questioning the Questions

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    One of the things I have learned as a student of Stanley Hauerwas is to continually question the questions being posed for debate on any issue and not to simply accept the terminology and definitions that frame so much modern theological and ethical discussion.

    From Allan R. Bevere: Faith Seeking Understanding
    (Note to readers: In our new format, titles of posts that are quotes from and links to author blogs will begin with the author’s name.)

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