Tag: ethics
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Painfully Timely
This was one of the daily lectionary readings today: There are six things The HOLY ONE hates – no, seven things God detests: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows…
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Points of Reference
My grandparents were refugees. From China, technically, because they had left Russia in 1929. They lived in Harbin for two years or so, before they managed to be part of a small group that received a waiver from the US government to enter the country from China. They needed a waiver because of the Chinese…
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31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Here’s a sermon for Sunday, October 30 on 2 Chronicles 28:8-15 – a little late: Sunday, October 30, is “Reformation Sunday.” The Protestant churches in the Christian family celebrate this occasion as the anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his famous 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, sparking a debate about what…
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About Ethical Responsibility
“Doing what the Bible says” does not simply do away with the need to decide among values – including Biblical ones.
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Aristotle’s Question
The Big Question of the Humanities is “what is the good life?” I used to think it was primarily an academic question, but I’m old now, and I am learning from experience that it can take the form of an existential question: “Have I lived a good life?” “Have I been living a good life?”…
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Wondering about feeling good
How important is it to “feel good”? I’m taking a class online which clearly has as one of its important purposes teaching us how to cultivate a positive, calm, serene, happy feeling as we go through life. I’m all for that. But from time to time I wonder whether it’s the main thing I need…
Matters of Interpretation 