What’s Next?

Given the diversity and polarization of our culture, we frequently find people hold starkly differing perspectives. So different, in fact, that they sometimes seem more like alternate perceptions of reality rather than just different opinions. In this current political season, evidence of this divide between people is painfully obvious. But politics is not the only [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part IV

If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’re already familiar with the scene. Early in the twentieth century, western Christian worker E. Stanley Jones developed a friendship with India’s Mahatma Gandhi. On one occasion, Jones took the opportunity to ask Gandhi’s advice as to how Christians could make a more favorable impact upon the [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part III

In the two previous posts (here and here) we’ve observed Mahatma Gandhi conversing with one of his contemporaries, E. Stanley Jones, a western Christian worker in India. Jones asked Gandhi how Christians might make their faith more appealing to the Indian people. Gandhi replied with four separate recommendations. As I’ve already shared, it is my [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part I

When considering the people of the last century who have influenced the world through their moral and spiritual stature, almost any short list would have to include Gandhi. In fact, although his given name was Mohandas, many knew him as Mahatma, “great soul,” a tribute to the respect in which he was held. He was [...]

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Be the Change, Part II

My earlier blog, “Be the Change”, elicited this comment from Jim: “I’ve also noticed lately, that a lot of peoples’ anger (and activism) seems to start from a place of fear. Almost always, not fear for someone else, but instead fear for self (loss of income, loss of health benefits, loss of current standard of [...]

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Be the Change

Regardless of age, weight, color, gender, nationality, political, sexual or religious orientation, the one thing that it seems that most people can agree upon is the fact that our world is in a mess. Maybe it’s always been like this. Maybe what makes it so hard to take these days is the connectedness which ties [...]

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A Love-Hate Relationship

Recently Susan and I sat in on a day-long seminar on HIV/AIDS sponsored by a non-profit group in our community that works with those infected by the HIV virus. We consider ourselves pretty well-informed people, but we learned a lot that day. But one of the most important things we learned was not in the [...]

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