The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.
01807 – Empathy, the Highest Form of Knowledge
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01805 – Fall in Love with Life
You don't have to love mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being.
01802 – Longing for Relationship
At the heart of each of us is a compelling hunger for ways to live and be in relationship that are genuine. Too often we choose ways that enslave rather than free us, and so it is with churches as well. What the world longs for are people and churches who have found...
01797 – Not Worth Losing Yourself
The most important lesson I've learned over this past year is don't let anyone make you cruel. No matter how badly you want to give the world a taste of its own bitter medicine, it's never worth losing yourself.
01763 – What Does Our Framing Story Tell Us?
If it [our framing story] tells us that the purpose of life is for individuals or nations to accumulate an abundance of possessions and to experience the maximum amount of pleasure during the maximum number of minutes of our short lives, then we will have little...
01732 – Why Does God Allow Suffering?
People sometimes wonder why God would allow so much suffering in our world. Maybe instead we should be wondering why we do.
01731 – What is Our Job?
It is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It is our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
01713 – Dropping Pocket Handkerchiefs
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a pocket handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.-----------------------Gender-neutral version: In God's holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a pocket handkerchief. These...
01703 – Persuasion is Required
At such a moment, hesitancy in speaking out faithfully on behalf of the good news of Jesus is inexcusable. There are...issues thrown at Christians today, and the world is both owed an answer and is actually waiting for the answer that only the church can give—even if...
01701 – I’m Still Here & Now I Get It
Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...