A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
01544 – Value Principles above Privileges
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01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
01467 – Live Each Day as a Holy Adventure
[Re: 2020 Covid-19 pandemic] This is not lost time in which nothing happens. This is the time of your life and you need to live it fully each day. If we take each day as an opportunity for growth, we’ll always remember this time and the values we learned during this...
01427 – The “Money God” is Idolatry
By inner attitude and outward action, we must defile money's sacred character. Money is too high on our list of values. As Thomas Merton observed, "The true 'law' of our day is the law of wealth and material power." For Christians, this giving of high priority to...
01419 – Training the Mind to Think
[When asked about the speed of sound, Einstein said:] I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
01386 – Connection Creates Energy
Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued--when they can give and receive without judgment.
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...
01318 – Faith: Exploring, Exposing, & Testing
To have faith is to explore--and go on exploring--the life of the spirit on the only journey that matters: that of becoming a more rounded and authentic human being. It is to expose yourself to what has been thought of most value by past generations and test it in the...
01235 – Jesus’ Stance brought Him Condemnation
In the world order we know, there is no place for peace and justice, for equal distribution of material and cultural goods, and for the dignity of every human being. Jesus took a stance for those values and was cynically disposed of as a rabble-rouser. The worst part...
01199 – Got Values? Speak Out!
If we really believe what we say, that our faith should inform the whole of our lives, then we cannot leave our values and beliefs at the door when it comes to public discourse. While the separation of church and state is critically important to the freedoms we...