Category: Courage
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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Us All
It was President Jimmy Carter who quipped that the first thing a church has to do when it decides it is going to help the poor, is to find a poor person to help. It’s true. Many of this country’s churches are isolated from the poor. Comfortably and safely tucked away in suburbia, having an […]
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Earning Courage
My teenage son and I had one of those heart-to-heart conversations recently that you cannot plan; it just happened. He is coming of age, and with those steps toward adulthood he has begun to see the world for what it is, both marvelous and dangerous. Or in the words of Frederick Buechner, “Here is the […]