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Hung Up on Happiness

An English visitor recently commented about U.S. churches, "You Americans are so concerned about being happy," as if our kingdoms were the focal ...


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Trivial Pursuit in Church

Trivialization in the church, as in society, results in a loss of the ability to think. Christians are lured to view the world as the world views itself--uncritically ...


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Looking for By-Products

Sometimes people come to us and want to receive only the by-products of the Christian church. They have no intention of assimilating.


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Beyond Giving and Getting

Christmas has absolutely destroyed [the real] understanding of the Good News. It's trained people to believe that Christianity is fundamentally about ...


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Something More at Christmas

What is supposed to be a time of peace and good will becomes, for some, a time when the reality of human greed and folly and cruelty mocks the lovely ...


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The American Way

Abortion is not some little mistake. Abortion is a reflection of who Americans are: people in the United States are supposed to concentrate on themselves ...


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The Smallness of the Self

The smallest package I ever saw was a man wrapped up wholly in himself.


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Atheism and Piracy

If I am an atheist in my heart, making myself sovereign in place of God, and therefore arranging things in accordance with my appetites and needs and ...


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Self-Conscious Consequences

Preoccupation with the self produces a lack of self esteem, the opposite of what is intended.


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Chasing Butterflies

Clifton Fadiman, in The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, tells a story about Valdimir Nabokov, the Russian-born novelist who achieved popular success ...


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