It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
03463 – Truth & Lies
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02540 – Don’t Park Your Brain at the Door!
Don't let anyone convince you to park your brain at the door... not at home, not at school, not at work, and certainly not at church. Using our intellect... including reason, wisdom, and discernment...is one of the ways we honor our Creator.
02495 – Religiosity Can Hurt People
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...
01621 – Aging Well in Spite of…
In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
01561 – I’m Not Obliged
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
01448 – True Mindfulness
True mindfulness gets that gift aspect of the world into view. When our intellect learns to recognize the gift aspect of the world, when our will learns to acknowledge it, our feelings to appreciate it, ever wider circles of mindfulness make our world come alive. I...
01063 – We Just Don’t “Get” God
Our language is insufficientOur intellect does not grasp youOur imagination cannot get hold of youAlthough we do not know what to call you, we are called by you.
00993 – God is Always Ready to Give Us Intellectual/Spiritual Light
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one. But we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things. For in prayer...
00879 – Excellent Sacred Music: an Oxymoron?
“I will sing with the mind and also the spirit.” (I Cor. 14:15) Music engages both emotion and intellect, so directors should clearly enable their singers to sing with intelligence, expression and faith. Complex and overly challenging music could stand in the way of...