As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular
goodness as a way of life.
Not exact matches
The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to speak
of sex,
as of every aspect
of human
life, in a double
way, from the standpoint
of essential created
goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.
I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief
of Scripture with that
of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing
life is
goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world
of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves
as representatives
of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the
way, if you see the world
as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)
«We speak on this subject very cautiously and diffidently,» he writes, «rather by
way of discussion than coming to definite conclusions... We suppose that the
goodness of God will restore the whole creation to unity in the end... If anyone thinks that matter will be utterly destroyed, it passes my comprehension how all these substances can
live and exist without material bodies, since to
live without material substance is the privilege
of God alone... Another perhaps may say that in the consummation all matter will be so purified that it may be thought
of as a kind
of ethereal substance... But only God knows.»
The only
way to build peace and justice in our world - a world where
goodness is at home and real love flourishes - is for all
of us to
live as faithfully
as we can through the grace
of Jesus Christ.
I don't know how it always looks to choose love in a
way that exemplifies my commitment to the cultivation
of the fruit
of the spirit in my own
life, such
as peace, joy,
goodness, love, faithfulness, gentleness and so on.
What if most
of the problems in our relationships with other people — the
way we «see» and are «seen» by them, the
way we interpret their
lives, actions, and / or attitudes (and inversely the
way others interpret our own), the
way we treat and respond to others (
as well
as the
ways they treat and respond to us)-- every single thing that each and every one
of us do that damages our relationships with one another * stems * from an inherent misunderstanding
of the nature and the
goodness of the God in whose image we ourselves were created.
As one participated in its services enough «otherness» was present to assure one that what was being worshiped was not simply the
goodness of the American
way of life.
One
way or another it is true with all
of us that the ultimate test
of character comes when trouble comes, when some battering shock befalls us and the question presented to our
goodness is not so much whether we will do a right deed
as whether we can stand up with integrity
of soul under what
life does to us.
Follow me
as I explore new
ways to get FIT, keep my tummy FULL
of whole food
goodness, and stay FOCUSed on
living a happy, healthy
life.
Combined with Xbox
Live's free games
as part
of its Games with Gold program, gamers who have both subscriptions will have a lot
of gaming
goodness coming their
way.