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“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.” quote by Harvey Cox — Download Open image

“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.”

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Not to decide is to decide.

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Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide…

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Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is…

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“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today…

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There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

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It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature…

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it…

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

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The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

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God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

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It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

Lawrence Lessig

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There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by…

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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where…

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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always…

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the…

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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after…

Henry David Thoreau

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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as…

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I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get…

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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the…

John O. Brennan

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I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become…

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