A Baptist preacher told this story to his congregation one Sunday: When God walked into heaven and found everyone there, he decided it was too crowded. He owed it to justice, did he not, to reward those who were faithful? So, he had one of his angels read the ten...
No human being should ever be patient with prejudice at the expense of its victims. --from Credo
I never understood why we have to let religion and politics and things like that stand in the way of just being good human beings.
Words that oppress us are always accessible, force- fed or spoon-fed and now on the tip of our tongues. These tiny tools are used in the construction of consciousness. There will always be linguistic support for what is, for hand-me-down existences. We will need to...
We need a mystical spirituality of “somebodiness.” Not to be confused with celebrity status or self-righteousness, there is a need for a deep sense of knowing who we are as human beings.
Reverence is the pivot of the world,reverence for nature,for fellow human beingsand for God.
But it is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself. For then we confuse wishes, hopes, sighs, laments, rejoicing--all of which the heart can do by itself--with prayer. And we confuse heaven and earth, human...
Human beings always do the most intelligent thing--after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.
As human beings we can only experience life emotionally.
Dear Christians who feel the need to talk about singleness as if it is a sin and to bully single people— as if they are somehow defective and deficient unless another human being is standing next to them. Jesus was single, childless and homeless and you follow him,...