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Teaching Children Values

Percentage of American preschool teachers, administrators, parents, and child-development specialists who said the most important thing for a child to ...


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The Wrong God

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. ...


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God and the "Me" Generation

[Rabbi Harold] Kushner's book [When Bad Things Happen to Good People] was a best seller not only because it is so well written, but also because it ...


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Gotta Be Me

If the source of America's social disintegration is to be pinpointed so that it might be remedied, honesty compels us not to neglect this issue [selfishness]. ...


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Lessons in Unselfishness

What does the Lord do to help broaden my horizons and assist me in seeing how selfish I am? Very simple: He gives me four busy kids who step on shoes, ...


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Only God Satisfies

The man or woman who does not know God demands an infinite satisfaction from other human beings which they cannot give, and in the case of the man, he ...


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Commandments for Today

Douglas Taylor-Weiss, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio, has proposed a new set of Ten Commandments based on his observations ...


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Technology Breeds Impatience

A culture obsessed with technology will come to value personal convenience above almost all else, and ours does. Among the consequences is impatience ...


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Self-Love First?

The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation--love thyself, then thy neighbor--is ...


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From Responsibility to Rights

We have seen a gradual change over the past several decades in our society from emphasizing individual responsibility to emphasizing, almost glorifying, ...


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