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Showing posts with label Pipher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pipher. Show all posts
Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Green Boat by Mary Pipher

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God calls us to be faithful. Whether we are successful or not is in God's hands.

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Mary Pipher has written another wonderful book when she wrote, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves In Our Capsized Culture. While she has ...
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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Have we become co-creators with God of the universe?

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In Chapter Twelve of The Green Boat, her last chapter, Mary Pipher discusses hope as an ingredient in a life well lived. "I have le...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Fighting for the environment: resilience in the face of defeat

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In Chapter eleven of The Green Boat by Mary Pipher she describes the setbacks and defeats as she and her Transcanada Keystone XL pipeline ...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

What drives evolution?

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Mary Pipher, in the ninth chapter of her book, The Green Boat, goes deep when she writes on page 188, “One of the most healing practices ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Can we enlarge our moral imaginations to include all living things in our circle of caring?

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Chapter 10 in The Green Boat by Mary Pipher is entitled, “The Vast Sea Around Us: Interconnection, Deep Time, and Bliss.” She opens her c...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The blind leading the blind or a transcendent miracle?

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In Chapter 9 of her book, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture , Mary Pipher writes about the growth of the Nebrask...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Can UU principles (values) enhance American culture and help us become a better people?

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In chapters 7 and 8 in The Green Boat author Mary Pipher discusses the power of working with others towards a goal to overcome one’s own ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Intentional living may be what saves us

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In chapter 6 of The Green Boat, Mary Pipher gets tough. She overcomes her pessimism and decides it is time to do something about climate ...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Religion = multiplication of courage?

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In her fifth chapter of The Green Boat entitled, “Finding Shipmates,” Mary Pipher describes the coalition she got involved in during 2010...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Ignorance is bliss, and awareness is the grace of God

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Mary Pipher tells an endearing story in the fourth chapter of her book the Green Boat about her granddaughter, Kate. “I asked, ‘Kate, you...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Media literacy and critical thinking can save the world

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     In Chapter 3 of the Green Boat, entitled “Our Foundering Ship of State”,   Mary Pipher describes some of the dysfunctional aspects o...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Denial is not a river in Egypt but a defense mechanism that does not serve us well at this point in evolutionary history

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Mary Pipher in the second chapter of her book, The Green Boat, named "Denial" uses as an epigraph a quote of Arthur Schopenhauer...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Antidote for incapacitating knowledge is a rich interior spiritual life

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We have the internet and google and as Pipher quotes a school administrator she interviewed, "Sometimes in the early 1990s problems s...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Which god do you love more, Mammon or Mother Nature?

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Mary Pipher writes in her book, The Green Boat, on page 7, "Then, in President Obama's post reelection speech, he told listeners,...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

To fix our environment we are going to have to change our people, places, and things

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The UU A Way Of Life book of the month for August, 2014, is Mary Pipher's, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves In Our Capsized Culture....
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