This is a continuation from Part One. If you haven't read it yet, please CLICK HERE. Obviously, when I am speaking of unintended audiences, I am also speaking of secondary audiences. That is, hopefully a speaker or writer is aware of potential audience members that may vary both over time and space. Taking these into …
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One of my favorite essays is "Men of One Idea." It was written by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881). Some sources say it was written by Timothy Titcomb. However, that was his pseudonym. I have a copy of the essay in the Union Sixth Reader, a book published in 1862. Long have I sought an electronic …
Before I get into my topic more fully, I would like to share a quote from Martin Buber. Genuine conversation, and therefore, every actual fulfillment and relationship between men, means acceptance of otherness... Everything depends, as far as human life is concerned, on whether each thinks of the other as the one he is, whether …
Found a section of my old book Theo-storying that had stuff that I had forgotten about. I think I will have to update my book on Interreligious Dialogue (IRD) to include this. If I have time. Another thing that affects the impact of a story is the respondent's (or hearer's) attitude about stories. Let's return …
Teaching Interreligious Dialogue here in seminary, I decided to write my own book because I did not care much for the books that already exist in that topic. I was planning to give my latest group of students a "beta" version of the book to review. However, in a rare burst of energy I finished …
I was watching a TED Talk of Megan Phelps-Roper. She was raised up in Westboro Baptist Church, a small church in the United States known for its "hate speech." Now I know sometimes people use the term "hate speech" pretty loosely, but I think most anyone would say that Westboro's words and actions would fit …
A presentation of various rules, principles, guidelines, or attitudes that inform effective interreligious or interfaith dialogue.
A section of my book "Dialogue in Diversity." The first very rough draft is basically complete and will be reviewed by my students in "Interreligious Dialogue class. According to Martin Buber: “The presupposition of genuine dialogue is not that the partners agree beforehand to relativize their own convictions, but that they accept each other as …
Please click on the link at the bottom of this post for an article from Jackson Wu that then links to the related article in Relevant Magazine. It is an interesting case study of a Christian who gradually moved to atheism. The seeming cause was a lack of openness in his church to dialogue and …
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"“Dialogue has to be about the question of truth, even if no agreement about the truth can be reached. For consensus is not the goal of the dialogue. . . . If two people say the same thing, one of them is superfluous. In the interfaith dialogue which has to do with what is of vital and absolute …