No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity.
03902 – No More Apologies!
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03572 – Doubt? Or Certainty?
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me - -that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the...
03360 – The Opposite of Courage
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
03324 – Belonging vs. Fitting In
The opposite of belonging is fitting in.Because fitting in is assessing a groupof people and changing who you are. But true belonging never asks us to change who we are. It demands we be who we are.
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...
02831 – The Pretense of Love
Naturally, since its designed to hide its opposite, the pretense chosen by the evil is most commonly the pretense of love. from People of the Lie
02161 – Must the World Conform to Us?
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think--in fact they do so.
02118 – It’s Indifference!
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
02100 – Life: Beautiful & Hard
I can't reconcile the way that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, the gorgeous and the tragic. Except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out. I see a middle-aged woman in the waiting room of the...
01914 – Being Better at Differing
When I was called here, I was charged with remaining politically neutral. And I've worked at that. Well let me tell you some things that are politically neutral-- * Encouraging you to not bear false-witness. That's politically neutral. You might want to fact-check to...