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Visiting a plant after its closing was announced
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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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 …
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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Elie Wiesel selected highlights
Deported to the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1944 at the age of 14, Elie Wiesel wrote Night in 1958 as the story of what he at that time continued to experience as the death of his faith in God because of what he saw and went through in the camps. His faith returned, but this …
