Self-Examination Is the Beginning of Wisdom

It is the beginning of wisdom to look within ourselves and search our own omissions and want of humanity.

A Society of Inadequacy

Deep down we have a sense of individual insecurity. Maxwell Maltz, who wrote Psycho-Cybernetics, estimates that 95 percent of people in our society have ...

Defects of Character

The Lord sometimes leaves in us some defects of character in order that we should learn humility. For without them we would immediately soar above the ...

Marriage Myth

Myth: If two people are in love, their differences are unimportant.

Reality: If differences are dismissed or evaded, each person's right to be different ...

Real Consistency

The only way to be "truly" consistent is as a non-Christian. If we are to be Christians at all, we will be inconsistent ones. We will be right ...

God Uses the Imperfect

I shall never forget in my student days at Emory--not my seminary days, but after I'd served a parish for a time and went back for an advanced degree--I ...

Bad First Assessment

From the things-we-wish-we'd-never-said category:

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

Who said it? A bigwig at the Decca Recording ...

Dealing with Minor Obstacles

Just because you miss one train doesn't mean you have to cancel the whole vacation.

Making Peace with the Imperfect

It's a paradox of marriage that the strongest ones are those in which partners are simultaneously able to change to accommodate one another in some ...

Misplaced Veneration

Many Christians set their sights too low. They tend to deify men, and no man can measure up to that.