Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.
04286 – Loneliness Comes From…
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04281 – What Human Beings Deserve
Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees, and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.
04262 – Let’s Be Very Clear
Let's be very clear: Strong men--men who are truly role models--don't need to put down women in order to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
04257 – Some Cannot Bear the Truth
...some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure, and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.
04246 – Mocking & Dehumanizing
There’s nothing quite as disturbing as watching those who claim to follow Jesus mock and dehumanize the very people Jesus loved and even the kind of people exhibiting the same characteristics he did, like being a man who freely expressed emotions and cried. Jesus said...
04242 – Helping Others
I hate that when the discussion turns to helping people, there's always someone who takes the most ungenerous, contemptible stand toward others. If by helping legitimately needy people, I accidentally help some lazy people, so what? How is that worse than helping no...
04238 – In Culture War Mode?
When you live in Culture War Mode there is always a battle to fight, a side to take, and people to fear. When you live in God's Kingdom there's always a stranger to welcome, a neighbor to befriend, and an enemy to love. --from Love Over Fear
04230 – Drawing Boundaries
Jesus doesn't save us from a monstrous God who damns people to hell for coloring outside the lines. Jesus saves us from being monsters who draw normative lines that make life hell for others. The lines that matter are the boundaries required by human dignity. Those...
04220 – We Christians Should Ask Ourselves…
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...
04202 – Lies, Lies, and More Lies!
This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the...