Creating a safe place
In my book, Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church, (available as an eBook), I ask the question: “Can the Christian church, divided over different beliefs about moral values, create safe places so people can live together in love?” My answer, in part, includes a “Safe Place Covenant” to guide congregations in learning [...]
Change our Language
If we want to reduce violence in our world, language must change. The more often we use words of violence – even when our intent is to be humorous – the more deeply violence becomes embedded within us. If we can change our language, perhaps we can dig out this core piece of human experience [...]
The most important thing
What is most important in life? In Jesus’ day among the Jewish people, what the Law said was most important. And if there was one commandment that could be considered most important, that would settle it. So someone asked Jesus what the most important commandment in the Law was, and he said: “’Love the Lord [...]
Moral Values: What I Learned Growing Up in Church