Love cannot remain by itself--it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and that action is service... All works of love are works of peace.
01898 – Putting Love into Action
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01889 – How Should We Live in an Atomic Age?
[Written in 1948] How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land...
01820 – Hope & Love are Everywhere in Our Lives
The signs are all around us. We can see them springing up like wildflowers after the prairie rain. People who had fallen asleep are waking up. People who had been content to watch are wanting to join. People who never said a word are speaking out. The tipping point of...
01787 – Casting Our Bread Upon the Waters
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift.
01776 – A New Friendship
Many new friends have come into my life...Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, New Agers, and others—including lots of atheists and agnostics, too. One of the most dramatic of those friendships began in the aftermath of 9/11/2001. Like a lot of churches, our little...
01764 – Humanity Has a Choice of Action
[from his time as an inmate at Auschwitz:] The experiences of camp life show that humanity does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Humanity can preserve a...
01736 – Poverty is Not an Accident
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.__________________________Gender-neutral version: Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is human-made and can be removed by...
01723 – It’s Our Choice
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite heaven or hell to earth.
01641 – Stories Challenge Us
One thing healthy religion does is challenge us. I don’t mean the strident castigations of the street preacher or even the social justice rally-er. Great traditions excel at the soft challenge, the friendly nudge, issued predominantly through the mode of story....
01571 – Number One Cause of Atheism
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.