What if, at the end of the day, you will not be held accountable for what others did to you, only what you did to them—no matter what they did to you? I don’t know about you; but frankly, this kind of accountability is scarier than the claim that God will burn my soul in …
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Why the rule is golden
What if, at the end of the day, you will not be held accountable for what others did to you, only what you did to them—no matter what they did to you?
Who’s gonna nab the real burglar in Cambridge?
Millions are waiting for the Anti-Christ to arrive, but it’s been here all along. It sits where we sit, stands where we stand, walks where we walk. And all too often, it speaks when we speak. It prods us to do and say things to others that we would not want done or said to us. It picks fights, fuels dissension, and causes us to choose angry force over peaceful power. It justifies righteous indignation over effective conflict resolution. It’s like a magnet, spinning our moral compass out of control.
Is God Your Father or Your Daddy?
I visited a friend in the hospital yesterday. As I approached the reception area, I noticed a beautiful little boy accompanied by a couple that might have been his grandparents. This cherub couldn’t have been more than four years old. Round-faced with pinchable cheeks, big brown eyes and a fresh haircut, boyfriend couldn’t stand still, …
Is God Your Father or Your Daddy?
As a Father’s Day gift to God, let’s read more than one book—or vow to read the one we have more carefully. All the evidence that it’s time to stop blindly accepting other people’s answers and start asking our own questions is right there.
God as Valentine
Most of us don’t think about what we believe. We believe what others tell us–and, in many cases, we are discouraged or even threatened if we don’t blindly accept their beliefs. In this space, you are encouraged to think, analyze and ask yourself…
What do I believe–and why do I believe it?
What is Mid-Life?
Upon returning to the lovely gateway of the Beliefnet Community today, I spotted a question asked by one of my neighbors: “Is it a mid-life crisis?” he wondered. He made me wonder, too: When’s mid-life? I mean, if we are spiritual creatures, made in the image of God, if there is no beginning or end …
Are We Digesting Conflicted Fruit?
Today we celebrate the greatest lesson demonstrated by perhaps the greatest teacher the world has ever known, a Jew named Yeshua. What he demonstrated more than 2,000 years ago was that there is no death. He reportedly revealed that even though the physical bodies we wear are lifeless and entombed, we are not dead. We …
Dare to Think?
“Mankind must evolve, for all human conflict, a method that rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is Love.” The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My route to the office passes a large orange sign in a window of the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum on the Mag Mile that screams: …