Education without critical thinking is indoctrination by another name.
04296 – Education & Critical Thinking
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04215 – I Met Jesus!
I met Jesus and my former way of thinking has passed. [My] eyes have been opened... Craig
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...
04157 – How to Corrupt a Youth
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.-----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him or her to...
03953 – Freedom to Think for Ourselves
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think; let everyone enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment since every man must give account of himself to...
03799 – Pets Fulfill Us
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't fully been recognized. They keep millions of people sane. When you pet a dog or listen to a cat purring, thinking may subside for a moment and a space of stillness arises within you, a doorway into Being.
03748 – Thinking…
When we all think alike, no one thinks very much.
03702 – Embrace the Mystery
It's a frightful thing - thinking you have to get God right in order to get God to love you, thinking you're always one error away from damnation. It's a kind of legalism, really... How ironic. The very condition of humanity is to be wrong about God. The moment we...
03581 – Love: Philosophy of Ministry
A young minister asked me today for my philosophy of ministry in a nutshell. Before I could even think, this came out of my mouth: “If love can’t win it, it can’t be won; if love can’t do it, it can’t be done; in the end, love is the only answer.”
03541 – Key to Relationship with God
I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills, spirituality pills, and morality pills, and flush them all down the drain. The church, by and large, has...