说出心里话?: 希拉里·克林顿, 托尼·布莱尔, 玛格丽特·史密斯·歌特
Margaret Smith Court, is a retired Australian tennis player and former world No. 1., retained the record of the most won Grand slam championships hold in history. She is currently a Christian minister in Perth, Western Australia.Wikipedia
Tony Blair once said, after stepping down as
british prime minister, that religion was 'how I want to spend the rest of my life' before launching the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. 'Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th century,' Blair added. (below).
Now, Hillary Clinton wants to preach (below).
Why all of sudden, these rich and famous want to to that? What do you think?
玛格丽特·史密斯·歌特是一名退休的澳大利亚网球选手，前世界排名第一，歌特大满贯锦标赛的历史。 她目前是西澳大利亚珀斯的基督教部长。(维基百科)
托尼·布莱尔曾经说过，下台后
英国首相，那个宗教是在我启动托尼·布莱尔信仰基金会之前就是“我如何度过余生”。布赖尔补充说：“宗教信仰对二十一世纪的政治意识形态将与二十世纪具有同等的意义。
希拉里·克林顿想传道。总统候选人希拉里·克林顿终于从心里说出：
“我是一个信仰的人。我是一位基督教徒。我是卫理公会我被提拔卫理公会我感到非常感谢我从家里开始的通过我教会的指示和支持，我认为，我们中的任何一个基督教徒在我们自己的头脑中都会不断地，不断地谈论我们所要做的事情，以及如何我们被要求做到这一点，我认为人们非常有信心，而且与其他信仰人士进行讨论是绝对恰当的...我对圣经的研究，我对信仰的人的许多对话，使我相信最重要的诫命是用你的全部爱耶和华，爱你们的邻舍，这就是我认为我们是由基督所吩咐的，圣经中还有更多的东西关心照顾穷人，拜访囚犯，带走陌生人，为别人提供机会，找到自己的信仰，认为有许多不同的行使信仰的方式。
“但我确实相信，在许多方面，判断应该留给上帝，更开放，宽容和尊重是使我谦卑我信仰的一部分，我对那些真正把另一个脸颊所有人的敬畏时间，谁可以去那个额外的一点，我们被要求去，谁继续寻找原谅和继续前进的方式。那些对人类来说真的很难做，而且在新约里肯定会有这样的，叫我们这样做。
克林顿继续在山上讨论布道，这显然是她的中央圣经经文。 “圣经中有很多伟大的研究：山上的讲道是什么意思？它叫什么叫做和理解？因为它确实似乎有利于穷人和慈悲，而世俗的话语却没有太多的东西，而是有上帝承认为爱和救恩的核心的精神。
她解释了她与一些保守的基督徒的区别。 “所以有很多可以学到的东西，我非常失望，对于那些以这样伟大的爱心为基础的基督教有时候被用来谴责这么快，如此苛刻的判断。
** Ref. **
antithetical form of preaching may be just what the country needs.
Politician turned preacher? Hillary Clinton prepares finally to 'come out' as a Christian leader
Tony Blair once said, after stepping down as
british prime minister, that religion was 'how I want to spend the rest of my life' before launching the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. 'Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th century,' Blair added.
Hillary Clinton wants to preach. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finally spoke from the heart:
'I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. I have been raised Methodist. I feel very grateful for the instructions and support I received starting in my family but through my church, and I think that any of us who are Christian have a constantly, constant, conversation in our own heads about what we are called to do and how we are asked to do it, and I think it is absolutely appropriate for people to have very strong convictions and also, though, to discuss those with other people of faith...
My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most
important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbour as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do, and there is so much more in the
Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up, to find faith themselves that I think there are many different ways of
exercising your faith.'But I do believe that in many areas judgment should be left to God, that being more open, tolerant and respectful is part of what makes me humble about my faith, and I am in awe of people who truly turn the other cheek all the time, who can go that extra mile that we are called
to go, who keep finding ways to forgive and move on.
Those are really hard things for human beings to do, and there is a lot, certainly in the New Testament, that calls us to do that.'Clinton went on to discuss the Sermon on the Mount, clearly a central
Bible passage for her. 'There's a lot of great Bible studies: What does the Sermon on the Mount really mean? What is it calling us to do and to understand? Because it sure does seem to favour the
poor and the merciful and those who in worldly terms don't have a lot but who have the spirit that God recognizes as being at the core of love and salvation.'And she explained how she differs from
some conservative Christians. 'So there is much to be learned and I have been very disappointed
and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemn so
quickly and judge so harshly.'
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Politician turned preacher? Hillary Clinton prepares finally to 'come out' as a Christian leader
James Macintyre 08 August
ReutersHillary Clinton wants to preach.That was the simple introduction to a revelatory news feature in
The Atlantic this week, which claimed that the Democrat former presidential candidate said this to Bill Shillady, her long-time pastor, at a recent photo shoot for his new book about the daily devotionals he sent her during the 2016 campaign.'Given her depth of knowledge of the Bible and her experience of caring for people and loving people, she'd make a great pastor,' Shillady told The Atlantic. No, she probably won't go to seminary; she probably won't pursue an official lay position in the Methodist church, like deaconess. 'I think it would be more of ... her guest preaching at some point,' he said. 'We have a long history of lay preachers in the United Methodist Church.'Since the election, he added, 'I think her faith is stronger...I haven't noticed anything different, except that I think she is more relaxed than I've ever seen her.'The report cited other 'scattered' bits of information that have come out, backing the idea of Clinton focusing on faith: last autumn, for example, the former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward revealed that Clinton told him in 1994 that she thought 'all the time' about becoming an ordained Methodist minister. However, in a comment which typifies Clinton's apparent ambivalence towards public knowledge of her faith, she told him not to write about it because 'It will make me seem much too pious'.AdvertisementClinton is not alone.
Tony Blair once said, after stepping down as prime minister, that religion was 'how I want to spend the rest of my life' before launching the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. 'Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th century,' Blair added.Now, two books are set for publication this autumn:
What Happened, Clinton's personal account of the election, and
Strong for a Moment Like This, Shillady's book of devotionals
.Shillady, who runs the United Methodist City Society in New York, wrote the book at Clinton's suggestion, according to The Atlantic, and his is the only book for which Clinton has agreed to write a foreword. Clinton and her aides read and approved the copy ahead of time.
Strong for a Moment Like This brings together daily devotionals written after Shillady got up at 4am, for Clinton to use in the day ahead, from 2015 onwards, when she first announced that she would be running for the presidency.Other pastors contributed, including more than 100 women clergy who formed a group called 'We Pray with Her'.According to the Atlantic, the book 'offers a rare window into the way Scripture appears to have shaped Clinton on the campaign trail – as it has throughout her life'.Hillary Rodham grew up attending First United Methodist Church in the conservative suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois.During the Bill Clinton administration which at times caused upset to Hillary, the family attended Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.
Strong for a Moment Like This suggests that Clinton was thinking about biblical themes throughout 2015 and 2016.Yet she has at times been all too guarded. Early in her career, she learned the dangers of speaking publicly about her religious beliefs. As The Atlantic recalls, 'When she was First Lady, progressives roundly mocked her moralism, and conservatives doubted her sincerity. After getting widely panned for a speech about America's "crisis of meaning" in 1993, Clinton waited nearly a year to talk about spirituality again – and did so, she said, "with some trepidation".'As long-time friend of Clinton Lissa Muscatine
told the New York Times: 'It's been a remarkably private part of this hugely public person's existence. It's almost like, because it's so private and has motivated her so deeply, that she doesn't talk about it.'It was on January 25, at a town-hall-style gathering inside a gymnasium in Knoxville, Iowa when, after years of not talking about it publicly, Clinton
came out as a passionate Christian.Asked by a Democrat-leaning voter about her beliefs, she opened up. It is worth quoting her at some length because all-too-unusually, it was clear that the guarded presidential candidate finally spoke from the heart:'I am a person of faith. I am a Christian. I am a Methodist. I have been raised Methodist. I feel very grateful for the instructions and support I received starting in my family but through my church, and I think that any of us who are Christian have a constantly, constant, conversation in our own heads about what we are called to do and how we are asked to do it, and I think it is absolutely appropriate for people to have very strong convictions and also, though, to discuss those with other people of faith...My study of the Bible, my many conversations with people of faith, has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbour as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do, and there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up, to find faith themselves that I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith.'But I do believe that in many areas judgment should be left to God, that being more open, tolerant and respectful is part of what makes me humble about my faith, and I am in awe of people who truly turn the other cheek all the time, who can go that extra mile that we are called to go, who keep finding ways to forgive and move on. Those are really hard things for human beings to do, and there is a lot, certainly in the New Testament, that calls us to do that.'Clinton went on to discuss the Sermon on the Mount, clearly a central Bible passage for her. 'There's a lot of great Bible studies: What does the Sermon on the Mount really mean? What is it calling us to do and to understand? Because it sure does seem to favour the poor and the merciful and those who in worldly terms don't have a lot but who have the spirit that God recognizes as being at the core of love and salvation.'And she explained how she differs from some conservative Christians. 'So there is much to be learned and I have been very disappointed and sorry that Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemn so quickly and judge so harshly.'With right-wing, white evangelicals on the rise in America, and apparently
tightening their grip on the White House, Hillary Clinton 'coming out' fully as a Christian and providing this type of antithetical form of preaching may be just what the country needs.
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毛泽东的文化自信和美学精神
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毛泽东说过，“人是要有一点精神的”。没有精神，人不会有出息。一个党也是如此，没有精神，这个党立不起来。在95年的奋斗历程中，中国共产党培育形成了一系列彰显党的性质、宗旨和品格，体现人民和时代要求，凝聚各方力量的伟大精神。我们党在1996年概括的长征精神，就是中国共产党伟大精神的一个醒目坐标。同样的，一个民族的文化自信和美学精神也很重要。
本文结合学习习近平总书记有关文化问题的讲话，就毛泽东的文化自信和美学精神问题，谈三点想法。
文化自信和美学精神互为一体
习近平总书记在文艺工作座谈会上的讲话中，特别强调要传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化，传承和弘扬中华美学精神。他把这两个概念放在一起来讲，说明有什么样的文化自信，就会有什么样的美学精神。
文化自信，是一个国家，一个民族，一个政党对自身的历史发展、文化秉赋和精神价值的充分肯定和努力践行。习近平总书记在“七一”讲话中指出：“在5000多年文明发展中孕育的中华优秀传统文化，在党和人民伟大斗争中孕育的革命文化和社会主义先进文化，积淀着中华民族最深层的精神追求，代表着中华民族独特的精神标识。”这个论断说明，我们彰显的文化自信，主要是对中华优秀传统文化、革命文化、社会主义先进文化的自信。毛泽东诗词体现了中华民族和中国共产党人的精神追求，是中国共产党文化自信的艺术体现。
中华美学精神，应该是植根于中华优秀传统文化，反映中国人几千年来创造和积淀下来的审美方式和精神气象，进而体现中国作风和中国气派的东西。诸如文与道的关系、情与理的关系、气与韵的关系、意与象的关系等。毛泽东诗词，是传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化和革命文化，传承和弘扬中华美学精神，体现中国作风和中国气派的一个典型。
毛泽东有深厚的文化底蕴，又是诗词大家。在他身上，文化自信和美学精神是互为一体的。他善于运用中国古典诗词这种艺术形式，来反映中国革命和建设实践，既实现了创作内容上的革命性突破，又在审美方式上继承和发展了中国传统。在创作素材上，他大量借用、化用中国历史文化中的典故，并加以改造，从而使上古传说中的共工触不周山、嫦娥奔月，到近代革命家秋瑾、现代文学家鲁迅的事迹和精神，在他的笔下都呈现出新的审美意义；在审美风格上，他欣赏以曹操为代表的建安风骨，以李白、李贺、李商隐为代表的浪漫诗风，以苏轼、辛弃疾、陈亮为代表的豪放词派，并把它们的风格融入到自己的作品中，实现创造性转化；在作品的文化气质上，他深受屈原、贾谊为代表的楚骚文化和明清实学、湖湘文化的影响；在诗词格律的形式上，他主张从“古典加民歌”的途径上去探索创新。这些，都比较具体地体现了毛泽东诗词创作的文化气象和美学精神，反映了他的创作同中华优秀文化的深刻联系以及对传统文化进行创造性转化和创新性发展的自觉和努力。
提出传承和弘扬中华文化及其美学精神，有一个怎样看待五四运动以来创造和发展的现代中国文化及其美学精神的问题。事实上，五四新文化运动以来将近100年的探索和实践，已经形成了一种新的文化传统和美学精神。毛泽东称鲁迅的方向，是新文化运动的方向，是现代中国的文化革命的方向，是“中华民族新文化”的方向，已经点破这个题。何谓现当代中国文化传统及其美学精神，是一个需要讨论的大课题，但民族性、科学性和大众性，是其中的应有之义。这样的文化立场和美学精神具有主动性和创造性特点。毛泽东说：“自从中国人学会了马克思列宁主义以后，中国人在精神上就由被动转入主动。”在文艺美学方面，中国人同样实现了从被动到主动的转变。毛泽东的诗词，就是思想自觉和精神自觉的产物，并且体现为柳亚子说的“推倒历史三千载，自铸雄奇瑰丽词”。
这里涉及到如何借鉴现代西方各种各样的文化资源和美学表达的问题。毫无疑问，从文艺发展规律的角度来讲，任何既成的文化，只要有用，只要能够有利于科学反映现实生活，都需要继承和借鉴。由此，现代文艺有了话剧、电影、油画、交响乐这些传统文艺中没有的艺术形式。但任何继承和借鉴，都离不开当下的生活土壤，离不开传统文化熏陶过程中形成的欣赏习惯，因而需要体现中国人自己的美学精神。它山之石当然可以攻玉，但人民在自己的文化传统中喜欢的玉，却不只是靠它山之石就能够打磨得像模像样的。照搬现代西方的文化精神来进行创作而出现水土不服的情况，并不少见。所谓水土不服，原因在缺失应有的文化立场和美学精神。这样，问题又回到了中国作风和中国气派上面，因为那里面有中国人对待生活的态度，思考问题的方式，反映现实生活的美学精神和在此基础上形成的观赏文艺作品的审美习惯。
观照现实生活的精神和情怀
中华美学精神当中，既有现实主义的优秀传统，也有浪漫主义的优秀传统。习近平总书记在文艺工作座谈会上的讲话中倡导，要“用现实主义精神和浪漫主义情怀观照现实生活”。这个提法，很容易让我们想起毛泽东提倡过的革命现实主义和革命浪漫主义相结合的创作方法。“两结合”当然不是一种硬性要求的创作方法，但它作为一个理论命题，却是有价值的。这个命题，很长时间不提了，今天的年轻文艺家或许会感到陌生。但实践证明，任何具有崇高美的，启发人们向善向上的作品，事实上都是现实主义精神和浪漫主义情怀这两样东西结合得比较出色的作品。中国文艺传统中这样的例子比比皆是。屈原是浪漫主义，但他没有遭谗去国、忧民爱国这种极为强烈的现实情怀和创作动机，也不会成就其浪漫主义的崇高和伟大。
杜甫是现实主义，并且写出《三吏》《三别》这样一些记录现实的作品，但如果没有“叹息肠内热”“欲倾东海洗乾坤”“再使风俗淳”这样一些理想主义的支撑，也不会成就其现实主义的崇高和伟大。
所谓现实主义精神，就是要直面时代和实践，以科学的态度和真实的笔触去抒写人民在特定历史条件下的创造活动。所谓浪漫主义情怀，就是在现实中发掘出真善美，用光明驱散黑暗，用美善战胜邪恶，给人民以奋进力量，让人民看到光明未来。真正伟大的现实主义文艺家，对生活是不会丧失信心的，总是会在不尽人意的生活中，在入木三分的真实描写中，想象着未来，进而给自己也给读者一种可期待的东西，让人看到前途。同样，真正伟大的浪漫主义文艺家，绝不会只仰望星空，而不低头看看自己脚踩的大地，更不会忽发奇想地想象着能够扯着自己的头发离开地球。其想象的形式或许天马行空，但这空间不会是自我陶醉自我封闭的内心世界，其精神思想的翅膀，总发端于并且借助于现实生活的支撑，背后依然是浓郁的现实情结，表达着对现实生活难以割舍的关怀和态度。
毛泽东说，《金瓶梅》没有传开，不只是因为它的淫秽，主要是它只暴露，只写黑暗，虽然写得不错，但人们不爱看。这说明在逼近现实的创作中，以浪漫情怀给人以光明的力量，传递真善美和向上向善的价值观，是多么重要。
毛泽东的诗词，是这方面的典型。写战争，写战场，如果看到的只是硝烟，只是鲜血，只是尸体，只是坟墓，那战争背后的东西就没有了，作品的意义和价值便陷落了。在现实主义精神和浪漫主义情怀观照下，战争场景的审美境界是这样转化出来的：“战地黄花分外香”，“雄关漫道真如铁，而今迈步从头越”，“金沙水拍云崖暖，大渡桥横铁索寒”。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记在讲话中20多次引用毛泽东诗词中的名句。比如：他用“人间正道是沧桑”来表达道路自信，用“敢教日月换新天”来彰显进取精神，用“乱云飞渡仍从容”来揭示战略定力，用“踏遍青山人未老，风景这边独好”来形容对美好未来的期许等。这不仅表明习近平对毛泽东诗词的爱好和喜欢，也体现了毛泽东在创作中用现实主义精神和浪漫主义情怀来观照生活，起到了超越时空的艺术效果，更说明既现实又浪漫的创作方法，是比较容易发现和展示真善美，传播和激发正能量的。
回到“人民性”
文化自信和美学精神，还不是毛泽东诗词和毛泽东的文艺观最根本的支点，他的创作及其主张，最根本的支点是人民性的文化立场。
如果说，以现实主义精神和浪漫主义情怀观照生活，是中华美学精神的方法论，那么，人民性就是其价值观，说到底就是一种文化立场。毛泽东始终强调结合新的时代条件来传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化，前提是要回到我们并不陌生的“人民性”这个问题上面，弄清楚哪些是中华传统文化中的“优秀”的东西。
毛泽东曾经从中国教育史的角度，对传统文化中的人民性做过集中概括。他说：“中国教育史有人民性的一面。孔子的有教无类，孟子的民贵君轻，荀子的人定胜天，屈原的批判君恶，司马迁的颂扬反抗，王充、范缜、柳宗元、张载、王夫之的古代唯物论，关汉卿、施耐庵、吴承恩、曹雪芹的民主文学，孙中山的民主革命，诸人情况不同，许多人并无教育专著，然而上举那些，不能不影响对人民的教育，谈中国教育史，应当提到他们。”这段概括，涉及传统文化中的政治、哲学、文艺、教育多个方面的人民性内容，虽不是专门就人民性这个理论问题进行阐发，但毕竟反映了毛泽东对传统文化中的人民性的理解。
值得注意的是，毛泽东讲传统文学中的人民性，比较强调其“民主性”的一面。对此，他还具体以屈原开创的骚体创作为例作为评价。他说：“骚体是有民主色彩的，属于浪漫主义流派，对腐败的统治者投以批判的匕首。屈原高居上游。宋玉、景差、贾谊、枚乘略逊一筹，然亦甚有可喜之处。”再往下的骚体作品，毛泽东就不那么满意了：“后来‘七’体繁兴，没有一篇好的。《昭明文选》所收曹植《七启》，张协《七命》，作招隐之词，跟屈、宋、贾、枚唱反调，索然无味了”。看来，是否有民主性，有人民性，关键看作品的思想内容是否积极进取。空洞无物、华丽无情的形式主义，不能说是优秀的。毛泽东那样重视传统文化，生前亲笔写的最后一封私人信件是给文学史家刘大杰的，盖缘于他对汲取中华优秀传统文化的深切关注。
毛泽东诗词中，处处彰显着他的人民立场。比如：“唤起工农千百万，同心干”“收拾金瓯一片，分田分地真忙”等。
社会主义文艺本质上是人民的文艺，因而提倡以人民为中心的创作导向。传统文化中的人民性内容，可以成为传统与现实相联系的契合点。文艺作品通过艺术形象来影响、引导和感染人民，本质上属于广义上的人民性教育。中华文化有一个诗教传统，就是通过学习和诵读《唐诗三百首》这类作品，来传承优秀文化，涵养修身立世的品格。说到底，这本身便是一种人民性的文化活动和文化传承方式。习近平总书记2014年视察北京师范大学时，公开表示很不赞成把古代经典诗词和散文从课本中去掉，就是重视这种诗教传统，注重从中华优秀传统文化中汲取精神营养的体现。
总的来说，体现中华美学精神的文艺，是人民需要的文艺，是有筋骨、有道德、有温度的文艺。有筋骨，就是有思想力度，有信仰坚持；有道德，就是教人向上向善，树立正确的价值观；有温度，就是情感价值取向上要有感染力。从这些角度来回看一下毛泽东的文化自信、文化立场和美学精神，是有益的。
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