Willome anchors the collection centered on what she calls eight songs, each inspired by a chapter in the Song of Solomon, the great love song of the Bible. She says the collection reads something like saying the rosary (Willome is Catholic); not being Catholic, I discovered that I could re...
All of us have positive illusions about life. It can be summed up this way: to an extent, every single one of us wants to believe that the world is the place we desire it to be. Think about that. There is a type of world I want to live in, a world where bad things don’t h...
The positive command in verse 29 is to speakwhat is good.The word used here forgoodisagathos. It is used in the accounts of the Rich Young Ruler (Matt 19:17; Mark 10:18; Luke 18:19) to refer to God. Jesus tells the rich young ruler that no one is good,agothos, but God alone...
If it only took three or four people unanimously denying reality to get another person to yield to group pressure and also deny reality, what happens when a person sees a story, message or video with literally millions of views, hundreds of positive comments, likes and other evidence of agree...
. ." may stand here for the strongest form of positive. So taken the verse would read, Surely they will speak according to this word. (i.e., will have recourse to the true Revelation) when there is no morning-dawn for them, when they look above and around, and see nothing but ...
The sentence presents the truth in a hopeful and positive form, and puts the criterion of the Divine informant within the reach of practical ethics. It is an appeal to the conscience as well as to the understanding. Apart from the subjective moral element, all other evidences of the presence...
Here is a blurb on some of the positive aspects of my childhood: When I think back on my own childhood, it was amazing in many ways. I remember watching the launch of MTV from my best friend Hillary’s couch. (Side note: the 1980s had some of the best music hand’s down.) Hilla...
Christ came to shine light on the positive, and yet we still don’t understand. The Church needs everyone. Everyone, EVERYONE! When will we learn to open the door and let EVERYONE in? When will my heart be healed, never to be broken again?
Marsh’s upbringing in a family positive about adoption made her comfortable with the ambiguity and fluidity of relationships. When she attended the University of Washington as a student, she found supportive relationships and community at the Q Center, a space that facili...
Then we see what is still happening with the pandemic. India seems to be the disease’s principal target as I write these words, although the United States still has 32.5 million positive cases and more than half a million deaths in its wake so far. And the number of new cases has rema...