Hardball Takes Over Public Life

At the beginning of the 21st century, reasoned discourse [is imperiled]. Reasoned discourse is increasingly giving way to in-your-face sound bites….Hardball ...

Strength in Meekness

President Theodore Roosevelt adopted as his pet proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." By that he meant that if the U.S. had a strong ...

God's Gentle Call

In the movie, The Horse Whisperer, Tom Booker, played by actor Robert Redford, employs his special gift of "gentling" horses.

A tense, New York ...

Lost Cause

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause, and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which ...

Commonplace Healing

Healing can be a mother picking up a child and soothing, comforting, and strengthening. Too often we look upon healing as an event when it usually is ...

Chilling Advice

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

How to Use Ideas

"Use ideas like seeds, not bullets."

Peaceable Kingdom

Give me courage to show the dove in a world so full of serpents.

A Respectful Witness

Civility, which I take to be a strong virtue and not simply wimpishness, requires that we not try to cram our beliefs down anybody's throats, whether ...

Preaching to One

Here's an easy method for testing whether a sermon can deliver: ... Change the setting from a public situation to an individual one. Take away the ...