Goodness

Universal Affirmation, Targeted Critique

Here's the podcast episode. 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 of the discourse we have something akin to the July 4, 1776 Declaration …

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Weaving truth, beauty, and goodness with love, mercy, and ministry

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Asked to share a few highlights from my life recently, I chose these for a speech last week, edited a bit here. 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 …

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The Easy Version

Arts, Beauty, Character, Goodness, Morality, Nature, Philosophy, Science, Spiritual Experience, Truth

Let’s Help Construct a New Philosophy of Living—and Grow How would you express your current philosophy of living? Would you like to develop it further? Here’s an opportunity to do so based on the idea that thinking aspires to truth, feeling responds to beauty, and doing can be governed by …

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All your good work has a ripple effect

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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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Visiting a plant after its closing was announced

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The experience of these workers was a world away from what had first come to mind in my attempt to empathize with their prospect of unemployment. What a delight! As the morning light came into the pleasantly cool landscape, I met Jake, and then a man with whom I did not exchange names, and then …

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Goodie we get to serve in a crisis

Goodness, Spiritual Experience

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? …

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