Morality

The beautiful wholeness of righteousness

Character, Goodness, Jesus, Morality, Spiritual Experience, Truth

R Watch the 10-minute video Listen to the audio file Righteousness gets a bad name because of two distortions: legalistic religion that tries to control matters that should be left to individual freedom, and self-righteous swagger with its hostility toward broad classes of …

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Overcoming our resistance to social service

Brotherhood, Family of God, Goodness, Morality, Philosophy, Spiritual Experience

Watch the six-minute video or listen to the audio 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 …

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Your daily praise phrase

Arts, Character, Morality, Nature, Philosophy, Science, Spiritual Experience

Watch the evolution of this playlist of Facebook live videos https://www.facebook.com/ANewPhilosophyOfLiving/videos/vl.263191524375189/1616595618512224/?type=1 The idea of a daily praise phrase is to have something that you can easily remember to keep you beautifully focused on divine values …

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The golden rule’s six levels of meaning

Character, Goodness, Jesus, Morality

Some colleges and universities have a series of talks titled, "My last lecture." Professors who are close to retirement present a distillation of their work. If not my last, this would be one of my last lectures. In retirement, I feel as though I'm now getting an entirely fresh start. Come and …

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Universal Affirmation, Targeted Critique

Goodness, Jesus, Morality, Truth

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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Anger and the Beautiful Wholeness of Righteousness

Beauty, Character, Jesus, Morality

Listen to the podcast episode. If we are to have a hope of proclaiming not in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit, we shall begin by activating our receptivity to the spirit of worship. Remember that when Moses wanted God to add support to his leadership and make his people distinct …

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