Prejudice and the Need to be Right
Some early studies about racial prejudice showed that we're quite capable of reordering our perceptions of the world around us in order to maintain our conviction that we're right. A group of…
Some early studies about racial prejudice showed that we're quite capable of reordering our perceptions of the world around us in order to maintain our conviction that we're right. A group of…
Love is not seeing Grandma, except maybe on chat.When the Internet works,and no one else in the house is using bandwidth. Love is cancelling your events, missing that concert,skipping the…
Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday, the day when the Holy Spirit descended on the Early Church as tongues of fire. The Holy Spirit is often pictured as a dove. But Celtic Christians…
I felt hope at firstthat the socket-wrenching tearsof virus deaths and aching lackswere birth pains that our liveswere undergoing on our way toa better communion, one with another. But then…
Come, Holy Spirit,come, Spirit of God,come with your peace, your power, your light.Come with forgiveness, courage and hope. Come, Spirit of God,unite us with the risen Jesus,turn us again to…
"Wait"is a cruel word for our frenetic, frenzied, whirling, busy world. We are so impetuous and impatient. Why write it when you can email or text it? We expect instant…
Our carefully-crafted illusionof predictable security,destroyed by a simple virus. We watch as the well-oiled gearsof our elaborate world machinegrind to a shuddering halt. An invisible enemyilluminates hidden linesof our interdependence. …
But Not Today I shall grow old perhaps, but not today,not while my hopes are young, my spirit strong, my vision clear, because life has a wayof smoothing out the wrinkles with a…
What is at about human nature that makes us put off the most important things until a crisis looms? So often we coast in our relationships until they skid into…