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Fear
Fear diminishes us. Most of us would readily agree that fear that seems to be imposed from outside of us diminishes us – that seems terribly obvious. What may be less obvious, and in fact even more...
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Is God Running a Protection Racket?
I remember a particularly opinionated 12 year old boy who wrote me a while back after having become enraged when I suggested that God was love and that there isn’t any hell. He proclaimed in his email...
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Can We Talk?
Can we talk? Or is that a bad idea? I love a good debate as much as anyone I know. As I have observed in the past, however, the truth is that much of debate in North America today – epecially on the...
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Who Will Your God Be?
Who will your God be? Will your God be a God of love, or a God of fear? Will your God truly want to see what’s best for you happen, or will your God be a force of manipulation and control in your life...
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What Have We Become?
I was working in the hood yesterday (for you white folks that’s what you might call the “ghetto”) and when I got out of my car a young man was standing there trying to get my attention. I knew right...
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Wussies for Jesus
“Whatever you do, don’t offend my friends.” That was the essence of the private message I got from somebody on Facebook last Friday when I responded in a supportive way to a comment he had made. It...
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True Religious Hypocrisy
True religious hypocrisy isn’t defined by someone failing to live up to the teachings of their religion one hundred percent of the time – it’s normal for people to fall short of their goals while they...
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Fear, Attachment, and Identity
Many of us are paralyzed by fear, especially the fear of change. It essentially comes down to an issue of identity. We ask ourselves, “Who would I be if this happened,” and the truth is that we don’t...
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Culture of Fear
I don’t find the Law of Attraction convincing. There are simpler and better explanations for life’s events. What I have learned, however, is that people who live under a culture of fear eventually do...
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Conspiracy Theorists and Other Fans of the Bizarre
There are those among us who are so unable to tolerate mystery and uncertainty that they gravitate toward explanations that, to most of us, seem at best far fetched and at worst psychotic. The truth is...
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Baby Steps and Nonviolence
Well meaning people, many of them social critics, often bite off more than they (or others) can chew. With all of the focus on violence in our society, many are stepping forward advocating total...
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You Can Lead a Horse to Water…
Any leader or reformer soon discovers that no matter how good their ideas are, they need the right people to implement them. Many people, for any number of reasons absolutely unrelated to the strength...
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Re-laxatives
We all know people who take just about everything way too seriously. They are the people trying to control the outcome of everything, the people who will fight tooth and nail over a friendly round of...
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Overcoming Entitlement
I am afraid we have devolved into a culture of hugely entitled, spoiled brats who believe they are entitled to whatever it is they want – they even go so far as to cast their desires a rights – but...
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