We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are...
The further a society drifts from Truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
We need a true national and global vision and the belief that we can do great things and embrace a wider range of human experience. We need a new deal, a new frontier, and great society. Tax breaks for the wealthy, white privilege, mass deportation, gun lust, fewer...
Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
I've always thought, "We need each other." Liberals need each other (and vice-versa). Cocky folks need timid people. Spirituals need the skeptical. We learn off each other and benefit. Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the...
The Prophets sought to convey: that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.
We Christians paint such a fragile picture of Jesus when we act as though his will is somehow threatened by every political and cultural shift. We Christians paint such a codependent picture of Jesus when we act as though he needs a political party, a president, and a...
While Christians espouse the view that we are all God’s children, too often we point to those who have gifts or talents we value. Saying that everyone is somebody is not comparable to giving everyone a trophy for merely existing but treating everyone as valuable...
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.