The only education in

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was … Read more

One key and defining

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term Father. Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as Father to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents … Read more

The separation of church

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the … Read more

The significance of language

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. … Read more