Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
03886 – Get Up in the Morning!
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02815 – Choosing Love
When we choose to love, we choose to face death, and grief and loss, again and again and again. Just as much as we choose the friendlier parts of love. It's all there, present and contained, in everything.
02776 – First Half vs. Second Half
I am beginning to suspect that the second half of life is about learning to let go of everything I feverishly collected over the first half that wasn't loving or human.
02588 – Learning Who You Are
In the third third of life...you discover that everything helps you learn who you are, and that this is why we are here. You roll your eyes at yourself more gently. You sigh and go make yourself a cup of tea.
02247 – Continuing in Atheism?
To continue in atheism I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply don't have that much...
02131 – Right Information vs. Transformation
So, in summary, if the gospel is about having the right information, then being right is everything. But, if the gospel is about transformation, then being Christ-like is everything.
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...
01730 – U.S. Church in Crisis
The crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part...
01695 – Explore the World
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deep enough.
01682 – If You Look Back…
If you look back only at your mistakes, you'd think you were an idiot. If you look back only at your wiser choices, you'd think you were infallible. But if you look back on everything, you realize you're a human being who has been through a lot, grown a lot, is always...