Monthly Archives: January 2015
Mark Twain quipped: “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” While I love Twain, I bristle at this assessment of Godly people. Yet, I do recognize that this stereotype of “religious” people as boring, somber killjoys remains with us today. What can people of faith do to remediate such an…..
Disney’s “Pollyanna” was one of my favorite movies when I was a girl. For those who don’t know the story, it takes place in the early twentieth century. A wealthy heiress takes in her orphaned niece as a matter of duty to her deceased sister, even though she wholeheartedly disapproved of…..
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” In my first post-college career teaching high school English, I liked to put this first line from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield on…..
Psalm 15 (see below) draws a pretty clear picture of righteous behavior. In the wake of New Year’s resolutions we should be fired up to rise to its standards.
It also represents most people’s idea about what religion is trying to get us to do – be good to others, love your neighbor as…..