The Realities of Life

A moment of conscious triumph makes one feel that after this nothing will really matter; a moment of realized disaster makes one feel that this is the ...

Worth Fighting For?

The Bishop of Assisi once said to St. Francis, "I think your life is too hard, too rough. You don't possess anything in this world." And ...

In Death We Are All the Same

David Seamands ends his book Healing Grace with this story: For more than six hundred years the Hapsburgs exercised political power in Europe. When Emperor ...

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Recognizing Our True Poverty

Rudyard Kipling, speaking to a group of graduates, said, "One day you're going to meet a person of such prominence that these things will not ...

Our Best Asset

Capitalism gets to stride around our society as objective truth. Everybody from Girl Scouts to collectors for the IRS agrees that money works.

Why doesn't ...

The Danger of Wealth

For every verse in the Bible that tells us the benefits of wealth, there are ten that tell us the danger of wealth.

John Knox's Stand

[Scottish Reformer John] Knox couldn't take the stand he did out of consideration of his pocket or status.

It Never Gets That Desperate

In God's order, there is never a situation so desperate that it must grind people to powder or press a financial appeal at the cost of integrity.

Robin Hood's Not a Good Example

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.