Vacations: Autumn Arrangement For over a decade I worked with a volunteer organization which had, at its height, over forty members. I knew them well enough to notice a pattern in many of my friends. Again and again I knew that one of of them was working intensely for weeks or months. Then the …
Wiser crisis decisions
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The mosaic of history and the present crisis
Beyond the urge to exhort, assured rejoicing unveils a partial glimpse of the mosaic of world history from origin to destiny. Here: this world, hemisphere, continent, this place. Now: this age, this life, this generation, this day. The natural friendliness of living prophets replaces subterranean …
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Hope—between despair and radiant assurance
Hope occupies a place on the spectrum of confidence ranging from despair to radiant assurance. Despair implies that hope has vanished. Radiant assurance is beyond hope, which implies a degree of uncertainty. This reflection on our attitudes toward the future begins with a look at our consciousness …
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Civil Wars
The United States of America is being torn by a civil war of clashing minds involving not only starkly differing ideas but also anger, contempt, and hatred. A war need not involve military force in order to be profoundly divisive and destructive. The remedy I propose has implications for …
A Part of Nature that Partly Transcends Nature
One of my favorite things to say to people: You are a divinely created, infinitely loved, spiritually indwelt, evolutionary, free-will son or daughter of God. I usually end my podcast episodes with this assurance. But what does the word “evolutionary” mean here? That each of us is a child of nature …
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