Serving in a crisis. Does the idea make you tense? Joyous? My first YouTube video shows the recipe. Hear responses to questions: What crises? How can we address multiple crises simultaneously? …
Love and friendship
A friend, a true friend, a good friend—what a treasure! Time together is sweet. Time apart is sustained by a relationship that doesn’t need to be continually focused on. A marriage can enjoy such friendship. Friendship can pervade a group. Friendship is based upon love, the desire to do good to …
Survival plus
During this intense and complex vortex of change in our world, when we find ourselves over-committed and daily life becomes hectic, how do we cope? Here’s the story of a method I developed which I call “survival plus.” I once taught a seven-week class on the philosophy of living. We began at the …
On ramps to the love highway
We need on ramps to love. Sometimes love is flowing and sometimes not. We find some people hard to love. When we’re in a hurry, any tendency to spiritual blindness increases. And how many of us have learned to step aside from the hurry in the face of all the crisis aspects of modern life? To love …
The gospel and truth, beauty, and goodness
The gospel is eternal, saving truth expressed to meet the spiritual difficulties of generation after generation. The emerging philosophy of truth, beauty, and goodness is something different. How do they fit together? In two ways. The gospel begins at the beginning, with the …
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Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, just published
The gospel movement just got stronger. The gospel movement lives by the saving, refreshing, illuminating, living reality of a central galaxy of spiritual truths. The core truths of the family of God are on a level by themselves. Religion stands above all other realms of culture and life--and yet not …
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