• Fidelity Not Success

  Shortly after the Gulf War in 1991, I heard a radio interview with Jim Wallis, the founder of “Sojourners”. Wallis had had some reservations about how the USA resolved that

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• The Prayer of a College Student

  Lord, God, I’m praying from my heart, not from my knees, with unspoken words, not with formulas. Hear this prayer that my parents can never know of. You read the

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• A Lord’s Prayer For Justice

  In the world’s schema of things, survival of the fittest is the rule. In God’s schema, survival of the weakest is the rule. God always stands on the side of

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• Faults After Initial Conversion

  Many of the classical spiritual treatises have a curious layout. They begin with a challenge, telling us how to live our lives in a better way. Then, usually already in

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• Flowers And The Rich Young Man

  When he was fifty years old, William Butler Yeats penned this reflection on aging: My fiftieth year had come and gone, I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London

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• Wasn’t It Necessary

  Wasn’t it necessary that the Christ should so suffer …?” That doesn’t fit the myth.  There is a popular myth that warms the heart. It speaks of justice and vindication

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• A Greed That Poisons The Spirit

  Greed and envy, despite the devastating havoc they wreak within life, get little ink. Too rarely do we examine what covetousness does in our lives. This was not the case

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• Binding And Loosing

  “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. “Those words of Jesus, as you know, apply not

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• Lying Forms the Root of Bitterness

  “It is not what goes into a person’s mouth that defiles him or her, it is what comes out of the mouth. For what comes out of the mouth comes

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• The Resurrection of Christ brings forth Forgiveness

  Forgiveness is the only thing that is new and it is the message of the resurrection. The world contains only one thing that is truly novel, forgiveness. Everything else is

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