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Reforming Democratic Faith

Seems like advocates for cooperatively-invested dialogue are concerned about indoor classroom experiences that feel a lot more like debate or merely academic, detached, cold analysis of win/lose evolutionary history, in which might proves rightwing kleptocratic victories while lefter democratic peace voices fade into non-violent non-verbal communications just among our oh-so-tolerant lefty hugging selves. I've been talking to our Faith Formation Director about why Unitarian-Universalist Universities are and are not appropriate educational dialogue multicultures for any faith formation, active hope reformation, compassionate therapy development, climate health rather than more climate pathology. It seems that good faith formation precludes bad lack of trust deformation, disinformation, egotistic debate cultures where winners take all and losers run off in search of some safer classroom. For me, outdoor classrooms feel safer for win/win multicultural dialogue between nutritionally communicating allies, consuming and producing healthy natural elements like richer soil, cleaner water, better air, balanced ego/eco-systemic climates where distinctions between wealth and health are held collectively for further refinement, and not hoarded autonomously for further isolating definitions into either-or thinking without sufficient emotional intelligence for both health and wealth of feeling. Outdoor classrooms endorse dialogue about how ecology and theology, like science and sentience outside and inside, refine good trusting faith formation together more left and right hemispheric rightwing and leftwing heuristic exploration toward in-between mutually cooperative discovery uncovery of win/win potentialities, Rather than all that inside classroom business as supremely left-hemisphere academic egocentric anthropocentric left v right debate about whose cold calculating weapons are best for overpowering warm organic tools of Earth's most polycultural producing healthy wealth. Reforming left and right hemispheric dialogue feels better, naturally and spiritually, holistically and holonically; outside ecological relationships forming good faith of and for inside theological compassion.

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