We set Generosity on Christmas Day for obvious reasons. So many of us give more generous gifts on this day than any other. But cars with giant bows or mounds of carefully wrapped toys pale next to generosity of spirit. We should cut each other some slack, think the best rather than the worst of … More Generosity
My heart breaks for many of my neighbors afflicted with Trump Delusion Syndrome. It takes a lot of Matt 5:44 to not hate them. Their faithful but deluded devotion has facilitated the most damaging regime of my lifetime. … More Compassion
Today is Hope. Last year, I read Steven Pinker’s wonderful “The Better Angels of Our Nature”. That phrase was the closing of Lincoln’s first inaugural address. Ironic in how the demons of our natures opposed his plea and launched that miserable war of brother against brother, which in some ways we are still seeing waged … More Hope
Today is the end of the first trinity of our Holly Days. This one is about community: Unity, Compassion and Kindness. On Monday, a judge in Argentina granted Sandra, an Orangutan, non-human personhood. Hard to know what this will mean, not like she will be getting an apartment and a job in Buenos Aires, but … More Community – Unity, Compassion, Kindness
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