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    Dialogue

    I'm taking a class this semester on Christian ethics; yesterday we were discussing the authority of the bible for Christian ethics. One of the insights we were working with was that the bible is always authoritative (however that cashes out) in the context of an actively deliberating community...
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    Is monogamy realistic?

    Today CNN ran the following story about new research that seems to demonstrate that monogamy is not a natural (i.e., from a biological standpoint). This actually is not the first such study I've heard of that comes to this conclusion, but I'm tossing this one out for discussion in light of the...
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    Homosexuality, sin, bible and gospel

    Moving this discussion to a new thread in order to avoid cluttering up Stude's any further: A huge hole in what? It's not at all clear what you're getting at here; can you help me out? That has been precisely the thrust of many comments that my conservative brothers and sisters in Christ...
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    ELCA pastor @ VA Tech responds to critics

    For any who are interested, Pr. King (the ELCA campus pastor @ VT) has written a response to those who have criticized him or his words in the days following the shooting on that campus. His response was published in the online Journal of Lutheran Ethics, to which I can't link because I'm not...