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The golden rule’s six levels of meaning

Amid happy laughter among friends, equals in the family, the rule of living--Do to others as you want others to do to you--unfolds in three levels, then six levels. A path to ascend to the way Jesus lived the golden rule is full of lessons, including lessons about how not to get overwhelmed by a …

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All your good work has a ripple effect

Goodness

Two things. First a report of my experience at Wrayco this morning. Next, a reflection on the reports I heard about the marches last Sunday in Washington and Cleveland. This morning at Wrayco, the plant near my home that is closing, I applauded and greeted to those who were going into the building, …

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Walking in beauty of heaven and earth

Beauty

Walking in beauty integrates person and community with land, cosmos, and Deity. The heavenly pattern of that integration is truth that we can taste, "on earth as it is in heaven." The goodness of beauty assures us that we can share this taste with others. Trusting the promise of our personal and …

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Mercy as love’s attitude to imperfect beings

Spiritual Experience

Having been concerned recently about relating as a potential minister to a possible future congregation, I had two transformative discoveries catalyzed by Margaret Benefiel’s book The Soul of a Leader: first the realization of myself together with a future congregation as a living organism, and …

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The inclusive brotherhood of man?

Morality

A soldier who had seen enemy soldiers kill her friends could not accept the idea that all humankind are the children of God. Are the teachings of Jesus really applicable in this world? Intellectually I agree with the golden rule that if I were part of an army bent on conquest, raping, killing, and …

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Divine positive attitudes

Arts, Beauty, Character

Problems are more likely to be overwhelming when multiple kinds of problem are tangled together: uncertainty, disappointment, apparent defeat, the sheer difficulty of what is to be done, the immensity of the task, and the inexplicable in a situation. How do you learn the matching positive …

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