Conversations will almost always fail when they involve what Michael Fullan refers to
as judgmentalism.
Not exact matches
Thanks for giving voice to so many of us, people like myself, who often feel
as though we are slogging our way through the religious wilderness of fear and
judgmentalism.
SBC president Bryant Wright offered a «word» for both Calvinists («A bit of humility would be most welcome») and traditional Southern Baptists («The time for
judgmentalism is over»)
as he told attendees to focus on the Great Commission instead of the theology of salvation.
Discernment is not
judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us,
as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»
The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees:
judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (
as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).
This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug
judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian
as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»
I'm guessing they're just
as subject to error
as anyone else's, especially when ego and
judgmentalism get in the way.
As I've been reading through the book's chapter on
judgmentalism, it has become increasingly clear to me that I'm very judgmental myself.
But at the ABNY event, in responding to a question about Trump's ban on transgender soldiers in the military, Cuomo said he is disturbed by what he sees
as the «Trump administration» pushing a dialogue that is focused on «anger and hate and division and
judgmentalism.»
And
as film criticism written by passionately engaged people with actual knowledge of film history has gradually faded from the scene, it seems like there are more and more voices out there engaged in pure
judgmentalism, people who seem to take pleasure in seeing films and filmmakers rejected, dismissed and in some cases ripped to shreds.
Yet,
as Ehrenreich makes clear, New Thought imposed its own kind of harsh
judgmentalism, replacing Calvinism's obligatory hard work with obligatory positive thinking.
That John apparently didn't understand that there was no
judgmentalism in the offhand phrase demanded that I point out that it was meant
as a joke.