February 24, 2010 | 3 comments
There are reports of deficits, deficits, and more deficits everywhere you read or look in the news media these days. Have you noticed? The US federal government deficit is so large and numbing, that one trillion dollars lost here, another
January 14, 2010 | 2 comments
Here’s a link to a thoughtful blog posting titled, “The Surprising Truth of Sufficiency.” The author, Lynne Twist, doesn’t give credit to a divine source, but still offers some liberating views that help dissolve the belief that we always need
January 12, 2010 | 2 comments
Here’s an interesting article written by Amitai Etzioni for The New Republic and reprinted in Utne Reader, on the subject of society getting too weighed down in consumerism. One might not agree with all his conclusions, but he does a
December 28, 2009 | 8 comments
I read an eye-catching article titled, “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” in The Atlantic. Hanna Rosin, the author, argues that the prosperity gospel preached to tens of millions of Christians, promoted excess financial risk-taking that contributed to the housing bubble
October 29, 2009 | 3 comments
Have you heard the below quote before when a distinction is being made between eternal individuality at-one with God and the everyday experience of humans? “We may be in the world, but we are not of it.” I can’t put