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Introduction – The Anglican – Fall/Winter 1993/94
Introduction By Bishop Craig Anderson The Anglican – Fall/Winter 1993/94 Calvin Coolidge once quipped, “If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it.” A good bit was said in the various lectures, sermons, and addresses given … Continue reading
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Community Reconsidered
by Craig B. Anderson Community is viable if it is the outgrowth of a deep involvement in a purpose which is other than, or above, that of being a community. – Bruno Bettelheim Much of the self-congratulatory rhetoric regarding Christian … Continue reading
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A Theological Metaphor and Method
An Address to the House of Bishops (I) March 1993 Kanuga, North Carolina “So, haunted, I invite you as theologians and as bishops to such a preoccupation, for such a preoccupation clarifies our occupation and reveals our vocation.” Click here … Continue reading
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Duty, Honor and Country: Just War Theory Revisited
Chaplain (Col.) Craig B. Anderson, Ph.D. Army War College – The Ohio State University Fellows Program – The Mershon Center Abstract: Within recent years, and especially since the Gulf War, both ethicists and moral theologians have renewed their interest in … Continue reading
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Episcopal Schools Form Servant Leaders
By Craig B. Anderson The rhetoric of educational reform is all too familiar – calls for adequate school funding, concern over declining test scores, impending teacher shortages, growing grade inflation, the need for curriculum revision to address poor student performance, … Continue reading
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God and the Scandal of Christianity
Craig Barry Anderson Our meaning of God is never the same as our experience of God, much less God herself/himself. Fundamentalism of any kind – biblical, theological, liturgical, and ecclesiological – makes a finite world equivalent to an infinite God. … Continue reading
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A Silent Apartheid Within – Racism against Native Americans
By Craig Anderson Racism is the greatest challenge facing the church. But we must not be tricked into thinking that the struggle against the pernicious evil of institutional racism is limited to apartheid in South Africa. The greater question before … Continue reading
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Reconciliation is a time to remember, repent, resolve
By the Right Rev. Craig B. Anderson At the recent Governor’s Council for the Year of Reconciliation meeting, the following mission statement was unanimously adopted: “to identify issues, attitudes and historical experiences that have contributed to the need for reconciliation … Continue reading
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Books: Science and Religion – Two Realms and Their Relationships
By Craig Anderson, Ph.D Three recent books add to the growing interest in the relationship between science and religion. Two of these share a common premise: Given science’s task of defining the natural world and religion’s goal of providing a … Continue reading
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The Virtue of Generosity
Albert Camus, the French existentialist, philosopher and novelist, once said that when we in the West forgot the virtue of generosity, we began the practice of charity. The truth of Camus’ insight was revealed to me in a significant way … Continue reading
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