#dogooders — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dogooders, aggregated by home.social.
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Arthur Tappan Pierson, Presbyterian minister, says if Christ entered a church, we’d make shrines of the aisles. But His simple garments would shame our diamond rings. Pierson says this is our guilt.
I had a LMC-earning relative who dropped out of church because he couldn’t compete in the fashion show.
How can you make the church more welcome to the lowly?
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Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, argues for criminalization of slave trade due to its “incurable iniquity”. “Private virtue” fails. Therefore, our duty to God and humanity requires an appeal to the state.
Just read a book on overfishing of cod. Many fisherpeople wanted rules then could seek self-interest within the rules. Cool.
How can you consider in your private life how to avoid abetting systems with incurable iniquity?
#christian #wordandspirit #christianmindset #dogooders #truthseeker
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John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople, offers a way Christians can do greater works than Jesus (John 14:12). It is not with resurrections or healings, but _charity_.
Does not the idea provide some elation? Would we prefer doing magic that we could not only do from the comfort of a couch, but also draws attention to ourselves?
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Thoughts inspired by "The heart of redness",by Zakes Mda: rural development, dogooders, skunked words and more
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Speaking of #SocialMediaInfluencers and #DoGooders who exhibit very strong tendencies to put themselves at the centre of #GlobalInequalities…
Wonder what has been happening with #WEorganization lawsuits against journos.