I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the key to learning.
02784 – Teach Children Music
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02513 – Do We “Get It”?
The absolute religious genius of Jesus is that he utterly refuses all debt codes, purity codes, religious quarantines, and the searching for sinners. He refuses the very starting point of historic religions. He refuses to divide the world into the pure and the impure,...
01592 – Scapegoating
The word “scapegoating” originated from an ingenious ritual described in Leviticus 16. According to Jewish law, on the Day of Atonement, the high priest laid hands on an “escaping” goat, placing all the sins of the Jewish people from the previous year onto the animal....
01591 – Scapegoating is Human Nature
Human nature, when it is seeking power, wants either to play the victim or to create victims of others. In fact, the second follows from the first. Once we start feeling sorry for ourselves, we will soon find someone else to blame, accuse or attack—and with impunity!...
01218 – Advent Preparations
Advent is not the kind of "preparation" that involves shopping and parties and cards. Such illusions of abundance disguise the true cravings of our weary souls. Advent is preparation for the demands of newness that will break the tired patterns of fear in our lives....
01127 – Where is Beauty?
Composers know how to use harmony and melody like a net to catch beauty's colors and radiance. And when we like what we hear, we open our pores to take in more--just as we close them against what seems ugly or offensive. Isn't that why we remember so vividly the hours...
01058 – Language: Are Changes Worth It?
Language patterns do not finally change until we use new patterns enough for them to sound natural and normal. That takes effort, and it takes a conviction that such changes are worth the effort.
00262 – Seeing “the Big Picture”
I think that’s one reason why you are here this morning. You are looking for answers to life’s big questions, searching for reasons why, groping for some discernible pattern in the confusion. We’ve been bombarded with information, facts, and figures. We don’t need any...
00128 – Pain and Resurrection
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Creation has a pattern of wisdom; and we dare not shield ourselves from it, or we literally will lose our soul. We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still...