Wherever We Turn
On her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Abigail Van Buren, ran the following letter to her husband in her syndicated “Dear Abby” column: Dear Mort: July 2, 1964. Today is a very […]
Religion
What The Church Needs Now
Lemon trees are pretty, the smell of the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the lemon is impossible to eat. Many things in this life look pretty, smell
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Are You Sure?
A little boy was about to visit the dentist for the first time. He wasn’t too sure he was going to like this adventure. For several days before “D-Day,” his
The Fanatics
A nineteenth-century poet seems to have anticipated the spirit of our time when he wrote: We live in an Age of half faith and half doubt; Standing at the Temple
Spectator Or Participant?
The religions of today differ in many ways. However, they seem to have at least one thing in common; they envision the religious life as a quest … a journey
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What Is A Frog?
It is said that our present Age — our modern secular Age, so called — lacks a proper sense of reverence for the awesome mystery of life. Modern man, it
All Of You
It has been said that one of the best tests of your religion is to find yourself in church with nothing less than a twenty dollar bill in your wallet.
Me, A Radical?
Do you think of yourself as a conservative or a radical, right-winger or left-winger? Some of you may reject the right-wing/conservative label on the grounds that persons on the “Right”
Radical Conservatives
We are all, of course, familiar with the religious tradition of reciting the Twenty-Third Psalm at graveside: The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to
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