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Excavating Your True Self
There’s a lot of mystery and often a lot of confusion when we start to speak about one's “True Self.” Depending upon your religious background, this can be relatively normal, completely bizarre and for some quite dubious. However, in the sense of healthy Christian faith, the pursuit of the authentic self is simply discovering and sometimes scraping the cultural graffiti Continue Reading...Read more -
Why Love?
I’ll state the obvious. I’m an idealist(not to be confused with lazy passive optimism). The novel and the beautiful capture me. However, my idealism can be double-edged, for sure. As Stanley Kubrick’s character General Broulard profers, “You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”1 Maybe he’s right to do so. Perhaps I’m like Miguel de Cervantes’ endearing Continue Reading...Read more -
“God gives but doesn’t share”
This little saying was in my inbox the other morning. It is a snippet from Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, the story about a person named Paul Farmer and his work in Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia. Farmer is a physician and medical anthropologist spending his career working to improve healthcare for some of the poorest folks in the world. In Continue Reading...Read more
