I was reading a book about the parables the other day, and a statement by the author struck me – not because I didn’t know it, but because I realized that it had ceased to be revolutionary for me: “Only Jesus insists on...
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“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance....
Read More“We’re the most tolerant society in the world here,” said the taxi driver as I made my way from the train station to my hotel. He seemed friendly, dressed in old clothes with a shaggy beard and a tattered cap turned backwards on...
Read More“If you think that tolerance of all values and value systems is good, are you not then ‘imposing your values,’ your value system, which includes the value of toleration, on other people or other cultures, not...
Read MoreReminiscing seems to go hand in hand with getting older. When I slow down enough to look at life through the eyes of my children, I see a world vastly different from the one in which I grew up. As a product of Generation X, my...
Read MorePeople who take the question of human truth, freedom and meaning seriously will never remain silent about it. They can’t. They’ll always act on what they believe, even at the cost of their reputations and lives. That’s the way...
Read MoreAmerica, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as...
Read MoreJust recently the results of a Pew Forum study on religion in America were released. In accord with many surveys over the past fifty years, this poll showed that the vast majority (92%) of Americans believe in God but that an...
Read MoreI came across this short and powerful reflection by the late Archbishop. This is very relevant for our times and quite thought provoking. Love is not Tolerance by Archbishop Fulton Sheen Christian love bears evil, but it does...
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