No Referendum on this Addendum

To the one who said, “most have only enough morality to keep them out of trouble but not to get them into heaven” I would say that not to gain entrance into heaven is the biggest trouble of all because it is an eternal trouble, and because there is only one other destination! That other … Continue reading →

Keeping Current

It has been reinforced to me afresh how important it is to keep abreast in relationships. Otherwise there is a drift at work which drives us along toward incommunicativeness. Not that the result is a total lack of communication, but rather a lack of communication of anything substantive, a lack of communication on any other … Continue reading →

All Intelligent Prayer

We say we can pray more intelligently for someone or about some situation when we know more of the details. Consider that Jesus is praying for each of us with full access to all details. “__who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.” (Romans 8, v.34) … Continue reading →

No Potential

If we say of a human being that he or she has no potential in a certain area we are saying something perhaps negative or derogatory but at least we are saying something limiting about that person. If we make that statement in general about a person’s prospects in life we are indeed saying something … Continue reading →

Socrates and Christ

It is not coincidence that there are so many similarities between the lives of Socrates and Jesus Christ even though they are separated in history by almost 500 years. It is as if the life of Socrates was a kind of prophecy for the life of the Jewish Messiah to come. Did not Aristotle, who … Continue reading →

An Unexamined Life

An unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. The one who defined boredom may have been thinking of this statement when describing boredom as an over-accumulation of unexamined experience. One who is continually bored may as well not be living. In fact, that particular one is not living at all but is among the … Continue reading →

Reduced

Human beings without spirit are reduced to dust, no yet worse and less than dust, reduced to nothing. Dust is still a little something. Continue reading →

Gospel Math

Divide sorrow but multiply joy. add souls and don’t annoy. To share the loading is less foreboding, and subtracting the liar means coming up higher. Continue reading →

Switched up Wires

He knew the wires had gotten switched up in her brain somehow when she started forgetting what did happen and remembering what hadn’t yet happened, but what was about to happen. Maybe this is how some prophetesses get their start, he reasoned….or how some prophets reach their end! Continue reading →

Finishing Off A Letter

– How shall I end this letter to the bishop? Abundantly in His abandon? In abundant abandonment? Living abundantly in His abandon? No, I’ve got it now: Living abandonedly in His abundance! What do ya think? -I think I’d abandon the whole abundance idea if I were you. Continue reading →