1. Shanta Premawardhana

    Jig-Saw Theology or Poker Theology? Wait! Is there a Poker Theology?

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    | Act Locally, Church-Based, Shanta Premawardhana, Theology, War & Militarism
    May 11, 2012
    The church plays by jigsaw puzzle theology but the world plays by poker theology, remarked a participant at the NATO/G8 teach-in event at the Chicago Temple, last Sunday night. A jigsaw puzzle is a problem that many people will come together to solve and gain satisfaction in the result, while poker is about winners and losers, who keep poker-faced in order to hide their feelings from others. Can the faith communities win the struggle for justice when they are playing by a different set of rules, he asked, or is there a poker theology?
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