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Cell Phones are Killing Off Conversation–and Civility
What has happened to civility? By “civility” I mean several things: ‒ politeness; ‒ the ability to listen to a contradictory opinion without knocking someone unconscious with your riot baton because they don’t agree with you; ‒ the simple human activity of entertaining different points of view from your own as possibly being valid; ‒ […]
Retired, Not Dead
January 8, 2017
I thought you were retired,” is something I hear occasionally from friends and acquaintances. Sometimes I think they are thinking, but not saying, “you still alive?” Let me indulge myself a bit here, for “retirement” is just another word with little meaning in my real life, as I suspect for a lot of baby boomers. […]
To Change or Not to Change, Part 2
January 8, 2017
To Change or Not to Change, Part 2 Last week we took up the question of how much of the past needs to be preserved in a rapidly changing world which seems invariably to favor the new. We took a brief look at the Christian church, and the subject of teaching, then and now. We […]
To Change or Not to Change, Part 1
November 29, 2016
William Shakespeare of course put the phrase into English coinage a lot more eloquently than me: To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, That was Hamlet’s soliloquy in […]
Bible Gateway’s Verse of the Day
- Deuteronomy 18:15 December 10, 2023“The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him.”
July 13, 2017
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