Active and Contemplative Prayer
Though I’m reluctant to categorize, it is fair to say there are two broad kinds of spiritual people: actives and contemplatives. Most people think the contemplatives are the spiritual ones…
Mouth Hacks
In The Adventure of Happiness I included a hack at the end of each subsection. Here are three hacks relating from the chapter on Mouth, which examines positivity and gratefulness….
Achievements: Idols and Icons
I have known two pilots in my short life. One flew commercial airliners in the South Pacific, and the other flew bush planes in the Arctic Circle. Both men loved…
How To Have Courage
Even in the midst of our worst fears coming true, the grace and peace of Jesus Christ are sufficient to sustain us through difficulty and deliver us out the other…
Ethics and Preferences
The Local Church: a study in ethics and preferences When it comes to the issue of Church, the make it or break it issue for every Christian is an understanding…
Ethics and Preferences, intro
A man is stranded on a deserted island. For seven years he’s been alone with palm trees and some sand. Finally a bi-plane flies over and the pilot notices the…
Jubilee expressed idealized hopes
The whole concept of Jubilee expressed certain values, certain ideals, certain hopes that placed value upon individuals. It placed value upon heritage and inheritance; it placed value upon family and…
Exaggeration and Irritation
Most Christians tend to think of sin and salvation as issues primarily, if not entirely, about eternity. The Bible does not. Neither does real life. Toil, struggles, power structures, hierarchies…
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