You can view the Preface, Introduction, and first three chapters (including dialogue questions) here: International buyers should be able to purchase the book through any local bookseller.įor churches, classes, youth groups, home fellowships, retreats, and other learning circles interested in using the book – here’s a Facebook Community just for you: And of course, it’s an inspiring and formative read for individuals too.
Each chapter is written to be read aloud in ten to twelve minutes, and is accompanied by a set of Scripture readings, reflection/discussion questions, and liturgical resources – so the book can be useful in a variety of ways for classes, small groups, new faith communities, and churches. That doesn't mean I have to impose my ideas on people, but it means I have a responsibility to provide whatever light I can on the subject and share my ideas with people.Brian’s 2014 release offers 52+ chapters that give an overview of the biblical story and a fresh introduction or re-orientation to Christian faith. There's no right I could claim that anybody else in the world can't claim, and I have to fight for their exercising that right just like I have to fight for my own. I have no rights that everybody else doesn't have.
You honestly say these are my ideas and I have a right to my opinion, and if I have a right to my opinion then you have a right to your opinion. Sharing it with them is one thing, but trying to impose it is another. And I think it's ineffective to try to impose that on anybody. Whatever you have to contribute has a social dimension. It's unavoidable that you have some responsibility, it seems to me, regardless of what you teach or what your subject is or what your skill is.
If the Pentagon is using your discoveries, that's not your problem. You say you're neutral in what you do, you aren't that concerned with it. And that of course means that you've surrendered to the strongest forces. If you make people knowledgeable about these sciences and don't point out this fact, then you're saying, I withdraw from the battle, from the discussion of the ethics involved. Science could be used by whoever has the power to use it and desire to use it. “There's no science that can't be used for good or for evil.
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