The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
03162 – Our Common Humanity
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03129 – It’s a Gift!
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on...
03119 – Shame and Struggle
What we don't need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.
03061 – Great Moral Leaders
Great moral leaders dare humanity to look beyond current possibilities. Moral leaders, regardless of their faith, channel an eschatological hope—a dream of what might be. The great leaders take ideas that society considers radical, naïve, outlandish, or a threat and...
03059 – Look at Jesus!
If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you're not just a spectator, but...
02997 -Believing What We Want to Believe
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.-----------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: The human brain is a complex organ with the...
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...
02793 – I Love to Hear a Choir
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity, to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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.