Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. from Jane Eyre
04017 – Prejudices Grow like Weeds
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03998 – Patient with Prejudice?
No human being should ever be patient with prejudice at the expense of its victims. --from Credo
03162 – Our Common Humanity
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
03003 – People Need to Travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's...
02738 – Picking and Choosing
For those who count the Bible as sacred, interpretation is not a matter of WHETHER to pick and choose, but HOW to pick and choose. ...So the question we have to ask ourselves is this: are we reading with the prejudice of love, with Christ as our model, or are we...
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.
01534 – Get the Facts!
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
00761 – Love: The Visible Presence of Salvation
The age of the coming Kingdom of God is the age of love, which requires us to accept each other unconditionally. Such love, which does not answer back and never says no, ensnares evil in the world (Matthew 5:39-40; Luke 6:29). It smashes the vicious circle of violence...
00124 – More than One Type of Virus
In these challenging, difficult times [pandemic], we are discovering a wisdom that we needed all along, and that wisdom is that we are all connected. We are not separate. We used to think that we caught diseases as individuals: "I'm sick; you're not." But now we...