Real grace makes everybody angry...unless you are the recipient.
03683 – Real Grace
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03352 – Everybody Needs…
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature can heal and give strength.
03285 – A Loser’s Script
Many religious people think that it’s all a merit badge system—all achievement, accomplishment, performance, and perfection. The good people win and the bad people lose. Of course, once we cast anything as a win-lose scenario, the irony is that everybody loses. Why...
03124 – A Bogus Version of the Gospel?
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control, power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often are given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food...
03087 – Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess
Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea...
02870 – Power of the Press
Those who read the press of their group and listen to the radio of their group are constantly reinforced in their allegiance. They learn more and more that their group is right, that its actions are justified; thus their beliefs are strengthened. At the same time,...
02717 – Shalom
The Hebrew term for peace is shalom, which is related to the word shleimut, meaning full or whole. Shalom requires radical inclusion — we can’t be whole unless everybody is included — and harmony — it can’t be peaceful unless all the diverse peoples commit to getting...
02701 – Harmony
We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.
02657 – Everybody Needs Redemptive Assistance
Individual will, reason, compassion, and character are not strong enough to consistently defeat selfishness, pride, greed, and self-deception. Everybody needs redemptive assistance from the outside--from family, friends, ancestors, rules, traditions, institutions,...
02442 – Subsidies vs. Welfare
Whenever the government provides opportunities and privileges for white people and rich people they call it "subsidies." When they do it for Negro and poor people they call it "welfare." The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built...