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From emotion through value to worship

Philosophy, Science, Spiritual Experience

From sweets to saints, various attractions fill the mind. Diverse values activate emotional responses that are sometimes disordered. A lesson from psychology helps us order our value-responses gloriously. Barbara Fredrickson is a psychologist specializing in the experimental study of positive …

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Ten truths of philosophy

Philosophy

If we want to base our lives on truth, many of us think mainly of truth in the spiritual sense; but the truth of God is all encompassing. Cosmic truth includes also the truths of science, which get most of the attention in present-day civilization. But science and religion, as understood through …

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Elie Wiesel selected highlights

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Deported to the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 14, Elie Wiesel wrote Night in 1958 as the story of what he at that time continued to experience as the death of his faith in God because of what he saw and went through in the camps. His faith returned, but this …

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Getting to know people with a vocational interview

Science

What do you do for a living? What advice would you give to someone who is going to do that work? What is your greatest satisfaction in your work? What is your greatest challenge in it, and how do you respond when you are living at your best? What qualities are needed to do it well? What are the five …

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Is there a way? A truth? A life?

Jesus, Truth

Hi, how are you today? OK. How about you? You look down. Right you are. In fact, I feel awful. Is it a medical something? No. It’s about my life. I’m glad we had the chance to run into each other today. Do you think there is a way? A way? To where? A way out. I don’t care where. I just want …

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Loneliness, community, and spirit

Science, Truth

So many people are lonely! And how deep is the loneliness! It is a loneliness of soul, craving a friend, craving a community to belong to, a safe place to communicate these longings and to take the steps on a journey. Meandering in hopelessness and lack of purpose and direction makes it easier for …

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