When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority...
A short list of questions we Christians need to be better about asking ourselves regarding our beliefs: How might I be wrong? How might the passion of my beliefs regarding an issue be causing me to ignore errors about my beliefs themselves? Do my beliefs about social...
What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or...
Commentary writer and professor, Thomas Slater, says this about Ephesians. “Many people say that ‘competition’ brings advancement. Rarely do people who love others and wish the best for others say this. This statement gives some people the license to ignore the...
When the Holy Spirit is ignored or rejected, religious people are forced either to do their own creating or to fossilize completely. A few churches accept fossilization as the will of God and settle down to the work of preserving their past—as if it needed preserving....
Easter weekend discussions tend to skip Saturday. Friday and Sunday get the press. The crucifixion and resurrection command our thoughts. But don’t ignore Saturday. You have them, too. Silent Saturdays. The day between the struggle and the solution; the question and...
When what we are offered in the Bible or what is reinforced by Tradition seems to contradict what we observe to be real, evangelicals have often been taught to submit to Scripture and Tradition and ignore the facts in front of us. But this kind of religiosity not only...
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Before assuming we are being ignored or shunned because of our faith, reflection may show we are using our faith to be abrasive, prove we are right, or socially obnoxious. If our faith makes us jerks, we may not be centered in Christ. Just sayin'.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. from Letters to Malcolm-------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence...