Newsletters
Relatively Speaking
SOC Newsletters
SOC [now, FSI] has been creating newsletters for the purpose of opening dialog on such topics as philosophy, religion, education, politics, human behavior, and current events. For your convenience and ease of accessing the newsletters, the first table organizes the newsletters by date and topic; the second table is a topical index with links to the corresponding newsletter.
[Initially, we called the newsletters Relatively Speaking, then changed to the Absolute-Relative Distinction, and then back to Relatively Speaking, which refers to relationships.]
# | Date | LIST OF TOPICS |
DEC 2003 | Democracy: Absolute and Relative Perspectives. Stories in the News. | |
OCT 2002 | Relativity and Tiger Woods. | |
DEC 2001 | Twin Towers: Innocence Lost. Looking Forward (Religious Relativity in Our Future). | |
JAN 2000 | Religion, Relativity, and the Future. Defining the Terms: Absolute, Relative, and Mixed | |
SEP 1999 | Go Ahead, Split that Infinitive. Language and Integrity | |
DEC 1998 | Christinaity and Relativity–What about Christmas? | |
AUG 1998 | Here I Am. Christianity and Relativity–What to ask for. | |
FEB 1998 | Christianity and Relativity–The Nature of Relationships | |
OCT 1997 | Christianity and Relativity–Validating Our Experiences | |
JUL 1997 | Making Sense Out of Living–and Religion. Religion and Relativity. | |
DEC 1996 | Semantics and Relativity: Love [Reprint from Dec. 1982] | |
JUN 1996 | Personal Browth: Steps 2 and 3 for Becoming Human. | |
JAN 1996 | Personal Growth: The First Step on Becoming Human. | |
AUG 1995 | Philosophy: Language and Relativity | |
APR 1995 | Philosophy: Drive-by Shootings and Relativity | |
JAN 1995 | Personal Development: Relativity and New Year’s Resolutions | |
JUN 1993 | Philosophy: Relativity and Banana Bread | |
DEC 1984 | On Religion: Christ and Christmas; Beginning Point–According to the God of Abraham; Relationship with God; The Catholic Church–An Absolute Approach. | |
NOV 1984 | Growth: Relativity and Calvin Klein. Politics: The Role of Government in Our Lives; Voting in the Presidntial Election; The California Lottery; William F. Buckley, Jr. as “Mixed.” | |
AUG 1984 | Philosophy: The 1984 Olympics. | |
FEB 1984 | Philosophy: the Art of Freedom; How Much Freedom Can You Stand?; The Ecstasy of Freedom; The Agony of Freedom; 4 Steps–A Freedom-Management Technique. | |
SEP 1983 | Philosophy: Peace and War. Semantics: Peace Defined. Growth: Teaching Peace. War. Violence. Human Rights. Legal Idolatry. | |
DEC 1982 | Semantics: Love | |
SEP 1982 | Philosophy: Getting it Together–Peter Sellars. Religion: Truth or Faith? | |
MAY 1982 | Relativity: The Philosophy of Individualism. What does “SOC” stand for? [School of Communication]. What is the Relationship between Youth Work and “Relatively Speaking”? | |
SEP 1979 | Politics: Carter is Mixed. Semantics: The Mixed Individual. Growth: Advantage of Being Mixed. | |
JAN 1979 | Politics: Human Rights and President Carter. Growth: I’m Shallow Too! Religion: Pope and Truth. Sex: To Talk or Not to Talk . | |
11 | [Currently unavailable] | |
AUG 1978 | Law: The Bakke Decision. Semantics [Absolute and Relative] | |
JAN 1978 | Freedom [Absolute and Relative Views] | |
AUG 1977 | Purpose of the Newsletter. Absolute-Relative Distinction. | |
JAN 1976 | Law: Application of the Absolute-Relative Distinction. | |
OCT 1976 | Politics: Application of the Absolute-Relative Distinction. | |
SEP 1976 | Theology: Application of the Absolute-Relative Distinction. | |
AUG 1976 | Business: Application of the Relative-Absolute Distinction. | |
JUL 1976 | Politics: Application of the Relative-Absolute Distinction. | |
JUL 1976 | Philosophy: Definintion of Relativity | |
JUL 1975 | Administrative |
INDEX |
TOPIC | Issues |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | 1 |
| CHRISTIANITY | 35, 33, 32, 31, 30, 21 |
| DEFINING TERMS | 35, 10, 8, 7, 6, 2 |
| FREEDOM, Management of | 24, 18, 9 |
| FUTURE, The | 35 |
| INDIVIDUALISM | 14, 12 |
| LANGUAGE | 34, 33, 25 |
| LAW, Rule of | 38, 31, 27 |
| LOVE | 28, 16 |
| PERSONAL GROWTH | 36, 27, 26, 23, 20, 15 |
| PERSONAL IDENTITY | 37, 32, |
| POLITICS | 38, 20, 13, 12, 10, 6, 4, 3 |
| RELATIONSHIPS, International | 34, 19, 18 |
| RELATIONSHIPS, Interpersonal | 24, 22 |
| RACE | 30 |
| RELIGION | 36, 35, 34, 29, 28, 15, 12, 5 |
| SEX | 12 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| –Talk Back | 10 – 35 |
| –Quote of the Month | Various |
| –Relativist of the Month | Various |