[From Dww-work]… CHOOSING A DIFFERENT ROAD You’ve heard the phrase “you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.” Perhaps you’ve also heard “what you sow, you’ll reap.” Both speak of f acing consequences for reckless behavior. Yes, there are physical consequences of poor decisions, and sometimes those consequences are tough to swallow. But the emotional […]
“I am not young enough to know everything.” (James M. Barrie)”If absence makes the heart grow fonder, a lot of members must really love this church.””Time is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen all at once.” (Albert Stewart)”Money doesn’t bring happiness, but it lets you search for it in more places.” ”Conscience […]
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out, in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, “Mommy, why are some of your hairs white?” Her […]
Knowing all this-that prayer is dangerous, that it moves our language into potencies we are unaccustomed to and unprepared for it continually puzzles me that so much prayer sounds so limp, that prayer is often so utterly banal. The limpness and banality may be no more common in pastors than in laypeople, but they are […]
Why America Doesn’t Work, c. 1991 Vocation, not occupation. We are, above all, spiritual beings, and as such we need to rediscover the moral and spiritual significance for every area and aspect of our lives, including our work. Why, then, should we work? Because work gives expression to our creative gifts and thus fulfills our […]
Truth is like a lion. No need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself. Saint a Gustin
by Ana Samuel within Marriage, Science June 14th, 2012 on Witherspoon Inst – Public Discourse http://linkis.com/com/8QnS4 Most studies compare long-term lesbian or gay families (not average l or g families) with the average American family (incl LGBT families?), not with IBFs. “intact biological family (IBF for short). Most gay parenting research compares gay and lesbian […]