Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.
04098 – Give Freely
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04092 – Make the World a Better Place
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.
04084 – War vs. Peace
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
04051 – Choral Singing = Unique Experience
Singing in a choir is an absolutely unique experience. It is one of the most important things in the world. Where else do you have everyone doing the same thing at the same time without the use of special equipment and for a greater purpose, and no one is sitting on...
04005 – “Tired”
I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two - and see what worms are eating at the rind.
03991 – Compassion, not Control
Christmas reminds us that God didn’t become an emperor controlling an empire. God didn’t become a general commanding legions. God didn’t become a creed, a Bible, or a set of doctrines to be imposed. God became a helpless baby born to a poor family desperately in need...
03990 – We Need These Saints
Think of a single mother who goes to the Church or the Parish, and tells the secretary: I WANT TO BAPTIZE MY SON." And the attendant says: No, you can't, because you're not married.. Let's keep in mind that this mother had the courage to continue with a pregnancy, and...
03962 – Jesus and Nonviolence
Jesus' teaching on nonviolence remains his most controversial teaching because we live in a world organized by violence. Which is why so many Christians want to pretend that Jesus didn't teach and model nonviolence. But to imagine a violence-endorsing Jesus is to...
03960 – Church: Political vs. Partisan
If the church is not political, it's irrelevant to the world that God so loves. But if the church is partisan, it becomes a tool of the empire.
03946 – Honored Guest
You are the honored guest. Do not weep like a beggar for a piece of the world.