Those who wish for a scene to continue without change are certain to be complicit in smothering it to death. Genies are not it the habit of returning to life in a bottle. from Smash!
03856 – Habits of Genies
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03228 – Our Leaning Side
A pastor of a small church would occasionally call on one gentleman to pray, and every time this one particular guy would pray, he would end with the strangest statement, “And, oh Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” Finally, the pastor pulled him aside, and he...
02525 – Science vs. Religion
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull,...
01852 – Your Frame of Vision
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real...
01376 – Both Victim and Victimizer
The attempt to divide the world into tidy categories of oppressor and oppressed or victimizer and victim oversimplifies the more complex realities of histories and habits of sin and evil. While it is undeniably true that many people have suffered--and continue to...
01009 – Kick the Habit
Language change is not all-important: if it were, then changing language would be all that was needed to change the world. Nor is it unimportant: if it were, we could concentrate on doing love and justice, and quit worrying about how we speak of God. To separate...
00932 – Sometimes God Says No
Nor is it adequate in certain cases to blame God’s lack of response to our prayers on a higher will for us that, for now, requires a no. No doubt what sometimes appears to us an evil is the very explosion necessary to blast us awake to the destructiveness of our...
00532 – Mistake: Equating God & Religion
Religion gives us the structures that weld the habits and disciplines of the soul into one integrated whole. Those same structures can also, however, smother the very spirit they intend to shape. We can get caught in the structures and the forms that are the basilica...