Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
04217 – Face the Sunshine
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04090 – Where Your Story Begins
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured. But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face....
03794 – The Imago Dei, in Women & Men
When women are treated as equals in advancing the kingdom of God on this earth, we all flourish. The Imago Dei in the face of women is just as clear as the Imago Dei in the face of men, and the fullness of God can be made known when we live and work together to bring...
03609 – Convictions, Growth, & Admiration
Convictions must be allowed to grow. We admire people of strong convictions, and we should. We must give even more admiration to those who manage to hold strong convictions while questioning them, reconsidering them, changing them, and fitting them to tough and...
03109 – Who’s Waiting for Whom?
When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.
03032 – Serving Hate-Gods or God of Love?
It is easier to serve the hate-gods because they thrive on the worship of collective fanaticism. To serve the hate-gods, one only has to be blinded by collective passion. To serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the...
02950 – It Should Change Everything
When you put a name, a face and a story with an issue or a decision, it changes everything. At least it should.
02921 – The Story of Christianity
The story of Christianity didn't take shape behind pulpits or on altars or in books. No, the story of Christianity takes shape around tables, as people face one another as equals, telling stories, sharing memories, enjoying food with one another. from Table to Table
02911 – Faces of the Least of These
God is not a being separate from the human. If you do not and cannot see God in the face of the hungry, the thirsty, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, then you cannot see God at all. God is not an external being; God is present in the faces of the least of...
02886 – Moral Imagination
We should acknowledge that moral imagination can rise above one’s culture but never transcend it completely. And we should honor the choice to be the one who does not wait for others but stands in the breach—or the choice to declare one’s own humanity in the face of a...