What answer to the question “Who am I?” establishes truth in your core identity, makes any remaining craziness peripheral and much easier to deal with, and opens up enhanced beauty and goodness for your contribution to sanity in this world?
A 6-level approach to the golden rule opens up a path of human understanding, personal growth, moral and spiritual realization, and decision-action.
There can be no peace between light (spiritual truth) and darkness (rebellion against God). But being clear about the difference between spiritual life-and-death warfare and other types of conflict helps us use attitudes of Jesus and methods of Marshall Rosenberg and Thomas Aquinas.
A living faith is a growing faith, and sometimes on the journey the next step is a big step. When we struggle with a big step, we need to exercise the faith that we have.
Jesus’ last discourse in the temple (Matthew 23), begins on a merciful note and includes a proclamation of the universal truth of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In the second part . . .
A year ago I published Living in Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. That book culminated my first career as a philosopher. I devoted that career to helping to construct a new philosophy of living based on truth, beauty, and goodness. And then I was called to a new career based on love, mercy, and ministry. The first career emphasized meaning and value. The second one emphases connecting with deity.
Too busy to read the book? Here are one-page summaries of the three parts and the seven chapters, which enable you to participate with pleasure and progress.
First a report of my experience at Wrayco this morning. Next, a reflection on the reports I heard about marches last Sunday in Washington and Cleveland.
Jake was in his car, smoking a cigarette, waiting to go into Wrayco to begin work at 7:00. I had expected to encounter shock and anger about the closing of this large and impressive plant, which at its peak had employed 281 people, now only 79.