Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous... Continue Reading →
Frank Laubach teaches us how to experience God constantly through playing "The Game with Minutes"
Communal life can flourish only if it exists for an aim outside itself. Community is viable if it is the outgrowth of a deep involvement in a purpose which is other than, or above, that of being a community. Bruno... Continue Reading →
Dallas Willard explains why hell is simply the best God can do for some people.
Often we imagine that we will work hard until we arrive at some distant goal, and then we will be happy. This is a delusion. Happiness is the result of a life lived with purpose. Happiness is not an objective.... Continue Reading →
Give me the man around whom the children come, like flies around a honey-pot: they are first-class judges of a good man…the children's friend is one who will be worth knowing. C.H. Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students
George Vaillant conducted one of the longest-duration longitudinal studies in history. Over 75 years he has studied a group of almost 300 Harvard grads to identify what contributes to health and happiness. A parallel study of almost 500 disadvantaged youth... Continue Reading →
Dietrich Bonhoeffer gives four concrete examples of what fellowship actually means.
The Magpie 