Profound self-respect
What happens to self-respect when it is nourished by spiritual ideals and practiced according to the golden rule?
Morality
Justice: divine, destined, established, and evolving
We speak of justice more clearly when we distinguish the justice of God from that of our planetary destiny, and presently established justice from the evolving progress that we seek.
Camp Anytown dismantles stereotypes
In three days, 70 high school students break through prejudice to become loving, mutually supporting change agents. Comments are added to promote another layer of quality thinking.
From “Judge not” to the golden rule
If I am not to be judgmental, how to I take the log our of my own eye? There is a marvelous flow of teaching in Jesus’ sermon on the mount in Matthew 7:1-12.
The fact, law, and love of God unfolding
The family of God is like a man training horses. The law of God is like a kind policemen teaching a class of children about rules of safety. The love of God may be seen unfolding in these examples, especially the first.
Forgiveness and consequences
In order to have the fullest, most satisfying experience of forgiveness, consider that forgiveness is an expression of the divine attitude of mercy. That attitude motivates whatever process may be involved in making forgiveness real.
The beautiful wholeness of righteousness
Legalism and self-righteousness hostility give righteousness a bad name. But the hunger and thirst for righteousness lead to the divine gift of righteousness and on to our learning the beautiful wholeness. Here’s how.
Overcoming our resistance to social service
Social service defined: Readiness to do good, if we can, to anyone with any kind of need.
It is common for love to be preferential in a way that is not based on our deeper equality in the brotherhood of man, the siblinghood of humankind. But everything changes when we recognize the spiritual core of what it means to be a human being . . .
Your daily praise phrase
A praise phrase for each day of the week reminds you to align with the new way of living: worshipful, scientific, philosophical, sensitive to beauty in nature, artistic, morally active, and righteous.