But where there is no faith it is impossible truly to please Him; for the man who draws near to God must believe that there is a God and that He proves Himself a rewarder of those who earnestly try to find Him.World English BibleWithout faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to...
The UNESCO Constitution preamble states, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” William James said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”...
It was ugly. Eventually, we were locked out of our building and members were pursued in court for another five years. For a year or so, we held home church. It wasn’t the same as having our own space. One day a member sighed and said, “I just don’t understand why they (ELCA...
The hymeneal veil and the golden ring came in only yesterday, and as an incarnation of the vision of love, Holy Matrimony is only a taste of the hellish consequences involved in claiming that a vision can be represented by thought, word and deed. Here, in my cell, is what one sees in...
Philosophy becomes anthropological to the same extent that man emancipates himself from the divine cosmos of the Greeks and the supernatural God of the Bible, and finally takes upon himself the creation of the human world. At the end of such a liberation from everything that might constitute a...