http://justifiedliving.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by justified living en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:13:11 GMT 2010-01-01T05:13:11Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2009 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968410&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The biological capture of sun energy is a process by which photons, light particles, engage water and carbon dioxide. [The water molecule has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom; carbon dioxide has . . . Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:18:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977968410&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-30T10:18:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964252&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace   The relationship of economy to ecology is the relationship of energy to matter, i.e., non-dualistic. Ecology is cosmic energy diversely expressed and expressive in the inherent/ coherent . . . Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:31:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977964252&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-27T08:31:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963155&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace   Being light to others is about trust, about fidelity to truth, conscience, and other-concern. Trust is the basis of personal integrity and purposeful interpersonal relationships. The failure . . . Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:18:51 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977963155&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-26T03:18:51Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954237&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The mindlessness of males is the mind of religion: if religions are male-dominated (and they are), their mind is male-biased. Corporate religion is mindless in its attitude toward nature, toward natural/ . . . Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:45:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977954237&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-19T07:45:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977950504&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace   What is creativity? It is originality driven from within—the model and way of cosmic evolution. Original dispositions of big bang energy set in motion patterns that repeat thereafter . . . Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:41:25 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977950504&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-16T21:41:25Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943901&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The law of cosmic reciprocity puts all energy/ matter in relation, for matter itself is a qualification of cosmic energy. In brief, the law of evolving reciprocity states: there is no gain except there . . . Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:34:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977943901&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-12T14:34:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941216&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace       “I had a good time in Rio, and, Rio had a good time with me.” Beneath consciousness the wells of remembrance and experience flow into each other. . . . Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977941216&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-10T19:03:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931550&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Hope in the future is a seed inherited from the past and existing in the moment. The reality we belong to is sandwiched between two non-existences, the past and the future. The past is memory, the future . . . Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:27:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977931550&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-12-05T01:27:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921088&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace What is “moral imagination?” It is the network link of self-reflective sensitivity within the web-life continuum. It is the smoldering of deep conscious intuitions that eventually flare . . . Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:10:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977921088&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-11-28T07:10:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920366&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The “Tragedy of the Commons” comes to Iowa agriculture. The conspiracy of weather together with corn-crop monoculturing is a costly problem for farmers and nature. Late-maturing corn grain, . . . Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:15:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977920366&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-11-27T17:15:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911105&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace To presume that religion and civility can be, need to be, independent of each other is folly, false and fatally hurtful. Both have common aspects that are essential to common wellbeing; in these commonalities, . . . Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:03:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977911105&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-11-21T03:03:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900541&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace I preface this work by saying that after a very long dry spell where I felt completely uninspired, this came out of me unbidden and without much planning.  It arrived spontaneously and required only . . . Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:34:31 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900541&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Cynthia B. 2009-11-14T08:34:31Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900405&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Consciousness and self-reflection have a talent for observing, connecting and drawing conclusions. The conscious process of connecting and drawing conclusions provides fertile ground for the imagination . . . Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:08:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977900405&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-11-14T05:08:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977889264&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Nuclear family is the avatar of communal authenticity, harmony. The schism of female/ male mutuality corrupts authenticity, civil culture. The family paradigm supposes parental mutuality/ authority; . . . Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:50:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977889264&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-11-07T01:50:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977878766&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Self-consciousness and self-reflection are powerful virtues enabling self-advancement, but they also enable self-deception and advance bad judgment in habits of ego-culture. The proclivity of self-deception . . . Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:39:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977878766&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-31T05:39:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977868600&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The “Mother Tree” is Earth-life’s vital source/ resource. From childhood we are taught “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, and as we grow up we learn also that “little . . . Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:59:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977868600&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-24T22:59:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977866219&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Fideism is the offensive offspring of ignorance and arrogance, which is identified with religion. By themselves, ignorance and arrogance are seriously tyrannical, but together their malice is compounded. . . . Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:13:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977866219&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-23T06:13:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977858526&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Humanity is a quality that distinguishes the self-reflective person from animalkind, from bestiality. Inhumanity is behavior that is call bestial. Bestiality is a crudity, an insensitivity that is . . . Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:21:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977858526&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-18T05:21:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857278&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace   Fiction and fideism may be more popular than fact and faith, but the choosing of the first over the latter is with very different consequence. The evidence from today’s perspective . . . Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:25:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977857278&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-17T01:25:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977847530&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The Christian heritage, its colonial overreach, its imperial politics, and its theology of dominion, justifies its claim in biblical canon. [WORD & WORLD, Theology for Christian Ministry, “Canon,” . . . Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:15:37 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977847530&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-10-10T18:15:37Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977837817&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Without going into an elaborate and painfully personal examination of my reasons and realities, I finally understood that it didn't matter whether I was talented or clever as a songwriter.  My Muse . . . Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:03:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977837817&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Cynthia B. 2009-10-04T07:03:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977827690&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Truth be known, nothing in nature is free; everything has value, everything is at a price.   Evolution is nature’s Call ; Sacrament is the Godly Response of conscionable self-reflection. . . . Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:33:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977827690&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-09-26T23:33:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977819250&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace The evolution of symbiosis is nature’s pattern and God’s plan . In every least fiber and fabric of life, sustainability is a process and product of symbiosis. Evidence of science . . . Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:09:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977819250&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-09-20T03:09:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977810487&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace From SINGULARITY, energy diffusion (cosmic expansion) and particulate amalgamation (conscious life) co-evolve. The diffusion and expansion of energy (electromagnetism) and diversification of big-bang . . . Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:35:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977810487&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-09-13T05:35:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977801762&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith   cdf@cfaith.va Dear Cardinal Levada:   Symbiotic life, whether male or female, is female/ male characterized. . . . Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:50:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977801762&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-09-06T05:50:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977793206&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace “Human ecology” is unthinkable except within the milieu of natural ecology. Bodily and spiritually (physically/ psychically) humankind is a self-reflective ecology within the greater ecology . . . Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:40:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977793206&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-08-30T08:40:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977784472&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace An understanding of "reciprocity", the correlation (mutuality) of “the natural” and “the spiritual”, can enlighten us to live more faithfully to nature and more lovingly toward . . . Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:39:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977784472&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-08-23T04:39:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977775554&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Every living cell carries in common life’s genetic “grammar”, including human cells. The cosmic codes of evolving “transubstantiation” are to Christian religion evidence . . . Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:04:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977775554&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-08-16T06:04:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977767906&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Conflicts and differences will always be; they are never successfully resolved by violence, but intentional symbiosis can mitigate them. The difference between symbiosis and violence is the difference . . . Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977767906&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-08-09T05:00:00Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977759522&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace  “If the first generations that assimilated Darwin's thought were concerned with the origin of species, our own is concerned in an unprecedented way with the extinction of species and, above . . . Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:24:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977759522&grpId=3659174697239231&nav=Groupspace Sylvester Steffen 2009-08-02T03:24:07Z