True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
01553 – True Compassion
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01425 – Power and Corruption; Powerlessness & Self-Hatred
Isaiah understood what Lord Acton failed to note, that it is not only power that tends to corrupt, and absolute power absolutely; powerlessness does the same. It produces lives dreary with self-hatred and stingy with hope. from Credo
01373 – A Revolution of Values
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to...
00599 – Don’t Just Do Something: Sit There
Keeping silence is work indeed. It goes against our obsessive need to communicate, socialize, produce, achieve. It is a confrontation with our emptiness, self-deceptions, even self-image—those things we try so hard to hide under blankets of activity and sound. Silence...