A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small, "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people...
I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life--about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.
“It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury." "What then?" "Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example." "What does He say?" "Love your...
Jesus' parable, therefore, shatters the stereotypes of social boundaries and class division and renders void any system of religious quid pro quo. Neighbors do not recognize social class. Neither is mercy the conduct of a calculating heart, nor eternal life the reward...