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A Word to the Wise
Every religion that has survived through time has done so because of the wisdom that it contains. Wisdom is not the same as intelligence or even genius. Edison and Henry Ford were geniuses, creators of one invention after another, but I don’t look to Edison or Ford for wisdom.Conversely, I don’t expect wisdom to help…
Radical Empathy
Back in the early seventies when I was in seminary, one of the most popular TV programs was Star Trek. The originator of the series, Gene Roddenberry, and the various writers cleverly projected global and national problems current at the time onto the imagined future of the universe. Racism, war, and dictatorships were all dealt…
Pilgrim’s Progress
One of the wisest men I’ve ever met is Father Matthew Kelty, a monk at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. I have been thinking lately of one of the many lessons I learned from him. Paraphrasing his words, tourists travel from their center of meaning, their psychic home, to visit some site on the periphery. In…
Suffer the Children
With our grandchildren living in Georgia, we don’t get to be with them in person as much as we’d like. The other side of that coin is that it’s special when we are able to spend time with them. This year, they joined us for a week and a half when we were vacationing in…
Growing Up With Lincoln
In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see Lincoln sites, such as Lincoln’s home and his grave. If they stayed longer, we’d likely take them to New Salem, the restored 19th century village where Lincoln grew up. As is true of most children,…