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The New Economic “I AM . . . “

Aug 22, 2011

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The New Economic “I AM . . . “

“As with psychology and politics, economics plays an important role in our lives. But it cannot satisfy the irresistible impulse for a comprehensive worldview. ”

Today Comment reprints reflections from 1998 on four trends that were converging then, and converge still today.

Sex and Identity

Aug 19, 2011

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Sex and Identity

God created humanity with a capacity to enjoy intimacy, closeness, and connection with other human beings—and if we forget that sexuality is supposed to move us towards others in connection and closeness, we forget part of what makes us human.

Life’s Big Questions: Who Am I?

Aug 15, 2011

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Life’s Big Questions: Who Am I?

“We [still] need to counter the world’s standards of identity and worth based on performance, on biology, on comparison/competition, on acquisition, on conformance, or on exclusion . . . From a biblical perspective, our identities and self-worth are rooted in the relationships we have with God, with our fellow humans, and with God’s creation.”
Today Comment reprints reflections from 2004 that are equally imperative seven years on.

Aug 10, 2011

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The Place of Race

Jennings’s new book is a valuable contribution to the theology of race conversation—one that needs many more voices—but it still leaves some questions unanswered.

Our National Debt is Immoral

Aug 1, 2011

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Our National Debt is Immoral

Canada’s fiscal situation today is admired the world over, but it hasn’t always been this way. In the midst of the U.S. debt crisis, today Comment reprints a 1993 article from its founding editor, a piece which can still bear fruit today.