Archive for September, 2005
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
…Our observation of the Sabbath is a special time of recognizing that, ideally, as members of the Christian community we are part of an alternative society, standing in contrast to the values of the world and able to offer to those outside the community the opportunity to choose another way. Our ethics are not like [...]
Monday, September 19th, 2005
In the Table of Inwardness, Calvin Miller stresses the intimacy with God cannot be rushed, that we cannot enjoy the presence of God if we are always looking at our watches. That is why keeping the Sabbath is so important—because on that day we never wear our watches at all…Many of you are probably saying [...]
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
I…spoke to two thousand high school students who were holding a mock political convention and said that unless their generation helps create a “new politics†in this country, all our future political conventions were destined to be “mock†ones. The popular wisdom says young people don’t care about public life. The popular wisdom is wrong. [...]
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Sometimes in prayer I get the feeling that I have had a
meeting with my Father. I pray and ponder; speak and go silent without realizing that the world around me has retreated and I am in this place of muffled isolation. I am aware of the city
sounds and the birds but, as it were, outside [...]
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it […] gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~ Milton Friedman, teacher of economics at Chicago University; winner [...]
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