Opening Act
Today, we are exploring what Christian life has to say about education—not just for those following programs, but for everyone who wants to see seed sown in good soil.
Seek the Low Seat
Could it be more plain that nations yearning to practice only strength, whether financial, legal, military or moral, segregating and oppressing their weak, their workers, their aged, their disabled, their poor, their sick, their least, their lost—that such nations always ultimately lose their bearings and collapse in weakness? Why? Because the human race was not for winning. The human race was for learning how to become humane. Care for what is weak is the core value of the left wing; and all share in its benefits.
Work and Worth
As Labor Day comes tomorrow—and despite the fact that on this holiday in America, the interests of laboring people are not much heard above the songs of summer’s end—let us acknowledge, in obedience to virtues of compassion, courage, and truthfulness what some will not: The gulf between the rich and the rest is becoming so great that it is threatening the whole of our civilization.
A Mystery in History
In the year 1712, the future began. Thomas Newcomen developed the first useful steam engine. Supplanting the power of a few hundred horses to drain water from the bottom of a coal mine in Dudley, England, Newcomen’s engine enabled much more coal to come up from the earth. Therefore more power came to homes and businesses. Jobs began to multiply. The standard of living improved and, to be a rather short-spoken about it, before long people began to think that this earth was a good place to live, with a future.
Things That Make for Peace
Things.That.Make.For.Peace-WOTD from the Wings of the Dove series Texts on Sunday, August 12, 2012 Jeremiah 6: 1-15; Luke 19: 41-48 In very many aspects of our common life, we Americans cannot find the will for concerted moral action. With respect to some of the...Sabbath, Land & Enough
Unlike gun control or our criminal justice system, which no politician will discuss, hunger and poverty have sometimes mattered to elected leaders. Yesterday, I heard President Lyndon Johnson’s voice on the radio, coming from 1964. He was declaring “war on poverty” in that famous Texas drawl. Yet how tragic was the news that followed. One out of six of us is poor; that is, has less than $23,000 for a household of four. The news story went on to report that although malnutrition is not the scourge in America that it had been before President Johnson started the Food Stamp program, unlike the poor in Johnson’s day, today’s poor are generally employed—and hungry.
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