List: Spirituality and Social Justice | Curated by Rolland "Rollie" Smith

Jan 10, 2025
59 stories
Spirituality and Social JusticeCulture (language, art, religion), Economy (skills, resources, behaviors to support life), are shaped and ruled by Politics (people organizing for power). These are essays on the relation of human spirit to social justice in economy, culture, and especially politics.
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
Christmas For a Secular HumanistCan a person be both a postmodern secular humanist[1], a critical thinker and activist who rejects superstition and supernatural entities…
Jan 10
Jan 10
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The Conscience of a ProgressiveA Critique of George Will and Timothy Sandefur
Feb 4, 2024
Feb 4, 2024
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Letter to my Friend and Colleague Dale in Canada on the Great Debate Signaling the End of the…Is the Idea being extinguished?
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
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Teilhard de Chardin: Scientist and Poet of Evolution
May 26, 2024
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May 26, 2024
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In the Beginning is the Story:The Myths of (Hu)Men and Gods
Apr 22, 2024
Apr 22, 2024
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After TrumpA rewrite of the last chapter of my book on Renewing Democracy in America
Oct 24, 2020
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Oct 24, 2020
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Ideas Matter:Democratic Power and Authoritarian Force (2nd Edition)
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 18, 2024
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Panentheism: A Quirky Faith that Keeps Me GoingMy sense/myth of panentheism is kinda like “inner light” theory as in Augustine or the universal fire in Stoicism but without a controlling…
Feb 19, 2024
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Feb 19, 2024
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America Without God?Transcendence, Yes; Transcendents, No
Aug 2, 2021
Aug 2, 2021
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
A Search for My Country:Understanding and Responding to the last 8 years
Feb 5, 2024
Feb 5, 2024
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Public Faith, Personal BeliefsAll my colleagues know too well that I have been grieving with most of them in the election of Donald Trump as an instance of a worldwide…
Jan 15, 2019
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Jan 15, 2019
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Oh God, Grow Up!We saw the play Oh God by Israeli playwriter Anat Gov at Mosaic Theater. It is a very funny Jewish play in which God, the one in the…
Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
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Praying as a Transmodern PersonA major objection to the transmodern metaphors for the sacred that replace Father God, Mother of God, Son of God, King of kings, Shepherd…
Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
Keep the FaithI distinguish faith and belief.
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
Jedi or TrekkieWe are in transit to a postmodern world. We are experiencing the tension or the passing of socialism and capitalism, realpolitik and…
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
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Mindless Robots?A psychological study at Yale describes an experiment that demonstrates that choices are made by the brain which activates the body before…
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
It’s About Time!(Friends and followers,a Warning! This reflection is dense. It assumes too much reading of dense philosophers, theologians, and…
Jan 30, 2019
Jan 30, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
Stringy LoopsOr loopy strings. That’s what I imagine reality to be.
Feb 5, 2019
Feb 5, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
The Public Faith: Does Secular America have a Religion?My colleagues know too well that I have been grieving the 2016 election as an instance of a worldwide return to the populist autocratic…
Feb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019
Rolland "Rollie" Smith
Aging and Dying as VocationMy brother-in-law died of ALS a few years ago — a miserable disease of gradual degeneration of nerves, muscles, and bones for which there…
Feb 18, 2019
Feb 18, 2019