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Frederick Smith

The Emerging "Coffee Party" Movement & coincidental convergence - 1 views

Americans' Break for Coffee: "Let's wake up, smell the coffee, and converse civilly about America's ABCs" (Incomplete write-up-2/14/10) A. Our Government is Paralyzed Americans Break for Coff...

politics Coffee-Party government Tea Party movement

started by Frederick Smith on 03 Mar 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

KarlGiberson(physicist)&RJStephes(hist'n-E.NazrneColg)-Evang anti-sci (not c/w NT) - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...lical-rejection-of-reason.html

evangelicalism fundamentalism anti-intellectualism Republican right moderate evangelicals nytimes.com

shared by Frederick Smith on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Frederick Smith on 19 Oct 11
     
    "Evangelical Christianity need not be defined by the simplistic theology, cultural isolationism and stubborn anti-intellectualism that most of the Republican candidates have embraced. >Like other evangelicals, we accept the centrality of faith in Jesus Christ and look to the Bible as our sacred book, though we find it hard to recognize our religious tradition in the mainstream evangelical conversation. Evangelicalism at its best seeks a biblically grounded expression of Christianity that is intellectually engaged, humble and forward-looking. In contrast, fundamentalism is literalistic, overconfident and reactionary."
Frederick Smith

US Exceptionalism as Idolatry - 0 views

The insistence of conservative leaders that patriotism be defined by a believe that the US is INTRINSICALLY EXCEPTIONAL strikes me as the very form of IDOLATRY attacked by both Hebrew prophets and ...

Politics American exceptionalism Washington Post

started by Frederick Smith on 05 Dec 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

9/11 & Pearl Harbor, Muslims & Japan - 0 views

On 8/3, my good friend and much-admired fellow physician Patrick Cavanaugh brought up a relevant question - asking, "Would a Japanese history museum be appropriate at the Arizona memorial [at Pearl...

islam religion politics mosque 9_11

started by Frederick Smith on 15 Aug 10 no follow-up yet
Frederick Smith

Responses to P. Chen, http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/letting-doctors-make-the... - 0 views

1  . Old Colonial Texas, now August 11th, 2011 1:10 pm What is critical here is the concept of long-term relationships between doctors and their patients, which most states are now destr...

autonomy & beneficence doctor expertise nytimes.com pauline chen bioethics

started by Frederick Smith on 15 Aug 11 no follow-up yet
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