Too many people spend their lives being dutiful descendants instead of good ancestors. The responsibility of each generation is not to please their predecessors. It's to improve things for their offspring.
02688 – Descendants vs. Ancestors
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02600 – Peace, Not Violence
Christianity still contains active resources that can fund violence, alongside other resources that can fund peacemaking. It becomes the responsibility of leaders and Christians in every time and place to draw from Christianity the ideas that bring peace rather than...
02475 – “If I Had My Life to Live Over”
[Written after she found out she was dying from cancer:] If I had my life to live over: I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle...
02341 – “A Prayer for the New Year”
God,Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful heart. There will be much to test me and make weak my strength before the year ends.In my confusion I shall often say the word that is not true and do the thing of which I am ashamed. There will be...
02184 – Decision for Hope
The decision for hope rests on what we believe at the deepest levels — what our most basic convictions are about the world and about God and about the future. We choose hope, not as a naïve wish, but as a choice with our eyes wide open to the reality of the world and...
02064 – A Distant Dream?
I believe that God made the world, set humans in responsibility over it, and chooses to communicate to us the nature of moral goodness and a rightly ordered world — even if sometimes it seems a distant dream. from After Evangelicalism
01991 – Social Justice
Until the great mass of people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
01959 – Myth of “the Chosen Nation”
It is clear that the myth of the Chosen Nation has been a powerful theme in American life. It is also clear that this myth can serve good and constructive purposes, especially when yoked to the notion of national covenant, for "covenant" implies responsibilities to...
01864 – Hunting for Villains?
Once I gave up hunting for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying than nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
01644 – Freedom and Responsibility
Freedom has a partner, and its name is responsibility. And together these give us the freedom to make a difference!