What a great little video and marvellous insights from a heroic pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. "‘Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own... Continue Reading →
An Honest Spiritual Life
"...what is an honest spiritual life? Perhaps we should say that it is one in which the taste for truth (rather than sincerity) has become inescapable. We don't know what we shall be, what face God will show to us in the mirror he holds up for us on the last day, but we can... Continue Reading →
The Span of My Life
"When I consider the span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after - as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day - the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which knows nothing of... Continue Reading →
‘Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor’
I recently discovered the writing of Anne Lamott, and just loved what she says both in this excellent, honest and funny TED Talk '12 truths I learned from life and writing,' and in this comment below, which is about writing in particular, but what she says about the curse of perfectionism in general, is spot... Continue Reading →
Poverty and Wealth: A Psychiatrists assessment
Many of the 1960's civil rights workers Robert Coles consulted in his psychiatric research came from middle-class families. Their parents nagged the kids about getting a real job and making something of themselves. One of them responded to his mother's concerned prayers over him: 'I wonder what Jesus said, listening to her prayers! I felt... Continue Reading →
Being Human: Christ to the Rescue
Christ is certainly no less concerned than Nietzsche that the personality should receive the fullest development of which it is capable, and be more and more of a power. The difference between them lies in the moral method by which the personality is put into possession of itself and its resources - in the one... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 