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A.J. Guerra: The Role of Religion in Strengthening the Family
- Saturday, May 26, 2001
New religions give to families a sense of global, historical, and cosmic meaning, and in so doing, help strengthen the institution of the family in contemporary times. Most important, I think however, for the purpose of our discussion is that they are obviously rendering a service along with these other religious movements to the sustenance and the revival of the family in this very difficult time.
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H.H. Saunders: The Virtue of Sustained Dialogue Among Civilizations
- Friday, January 26, 2001
Our subject is Dialogue among Civilizations. The compelling question is how to make that happen—how to do it. Rather than emphasize the role of the state, I will focus on citizens outside government and their capacity to make and build peace and build the social capital essential to economic development.
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S. Healey: Dialogue Between Civilizations: Possibilities after Huntington
- Friday, January 26, 2001
A dialogue of civilizations is a process that requires centuries of distillation. But we cannot know unless we try. We will not try unless we imagine that dialogue is possible and that we have something to learn from the other. In order to start trying, we must engage in dialogue. That sort of dialogue can give us a better liberalism, a better world.
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M. Gallagher: The Moral and Social Significance of Marriage in the Global Context
- Thursday, September 14, 2000
One of the keys to rebuilding marriage in the West, and, I suspect elsewhere as the rest of the world develops, is to find new ways and revive old ways of publicly supporting, recognizing, and strengthening marriage as a social institution.
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D. Eberly: The Family as the Seedbed of Democratic Citizenship
- Thursday, September 14, 2000
Democratic character flows not from formal constitutions or Congressional acts, but from vital, character-shaping institutions in society, of which the family is the most foundational. According to Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon, “Governments must have an adequate supply of citizens who are skilled in the arts of self-government.” These arts consist of “deliberation, compromise, consensus-building, civility and reason-giving.”
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S.M. Moon: Renewing the United Nations to Build Lasting Peace
- Friday, August 18, 2000
I propose that each nation, in addition to its current ambassador, send a religious ambassador to the United Nations to serve as a member of the religious assembly, or U.N. senate. The mission of the representatives to this U.N. senate would require that they have a genuinely ecumenical or interreligious consciousness and that they have the training and ability to teach a universal, transnational ideal of peace.
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God’s Parental Heart for Peace
- Friday, August 18, 2000
Through my travels, I have seen that the problems affecting our world – immorality, war, hunger, poverty, lack of education, and disease grow more serious with the passage of time.
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Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace Inaugural Address
- Saturday, February 6, 1999
A vision for peace is the heart of any interfaith activity.
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Inter-Religious And International Federation For World Peace Inaugural Address
- Saturday, February 6, 1999
Through my travels, I have seen that the problems affecting our world – immorality, war, hunger, poverty, lack of education, and disease grow more serious with the passage of time.
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H.J.H. Moon: World Peace and the Role of Women
- Monday, August 24, 1992
The history of today is calling for peace, reconciliation, compassion, love, service and sacrifice. It is an age in which the present problems cannot be solved by the masculine logic of power. There is no longer any need for ideologies which oppress humanity. This is the age when the present problems must be solved by the more feminine logic of love.
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S.M. Moon: My Meeting with President Kim Il Sung
- Thursday, December 5, 1991
As I approached the official residence, I found President Kim at the entrance, waiting to greet me. The two of us simultaneously embraced each other. I was an anticommunist and he was the leader of a communist party, but ideology and philosophies were not important in the context of our meeting. We were like brothers who were meeting for the first time after a long separation. This was the power of belonging to the same people and sharing the same blood.
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S.M. Moon: The Responsibility of Religious Leaders in Building a Culture of Peace
- Friday, November 15, 1985
As far as I know, God is not sectarian. He is not obsessed with minor details of doctrine. We should quickly liberate ourselves from theological conflict, which results from blind attachment to doctrines and rituals, and instead focus on living communication with God.