Doing Right Anyway!
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false…
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false…
In the operating room of a large hospital, a young nurse was completing her first full day of responsibilities. "You've only removed 11 sponges, doctor," she said to the surgeon. "We used…
In the Roman Catholic culture…..we were taught to pray for a happy death. For many Catholics at the time, this was a standard petition within their daily prayer: “I pray for…
This January cold spell with sub-zero temperatures and snow reminds me of a night in January, 1960 when I attended a CELAM Latin American conference at the old Edgewater Beach…
Once there was a very successful factory that made drills. One day the owner told his corporate officials that he was going to retire and that he had chosen his…
Fred Everybody, Thomas Somebody, Peter Anybody, and Joe Nobody were neighbors, but not the type that most people would want to know. They were odd people, troublesome, and difficult to…
The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to stand for something, and to make a difference in this world we live in, even if it's only in the…
In his book, Faith Works, Jim Wallis writes about a personal experience he had several years ago. Jim Wallis is the founder and the leader of the Sojourners community, intentionally located in a…
A three-year-old little boy and his grandmother were studying a plastic model of the human heart. They located all the chambers and arteries. When they were finished the little boy…
In the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, a group of white ministers issued a public statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the name…