Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman who was sent on a diplomatic mission to Budapest in June 1944, but who ended up saving tens of thousands of Jews from deportation to Nazi camps. How did it happen? On the banks of the Danube, at night, Jews were shot, often...
Henry Folger, patron of Folger Shakespeare Library, lived by 3 rules: “Never tell what you’ve done, what you are doing, or what you are going to do.” A de-storied life is not the life of a disciple. A disciple always tells what Jesus has done, what Jesus is doing,...
“Our healing lies in obedient acceptance of God’s will: but this is no bland resignation. It is a change wrought by anguish, darkness and stripping. If we believe we can experience our healing wihtout deepening our hurt, we have understood nothing of the roots of our...
One of Bonhoeffer’s close friends (Eberhard Bethge) tells of the time the two of them walked home from church together. They were discussing the sermon when, suddenly, Bonhoeffer’s friend told him that there was something about him that he found upsetting unsettling,...
The above symbol was placed at the head of certain periodicals to indicate that the contents were drawn from the four corners of the earth. This is how we got the word “newspaper.” Perhaps it’s time for the church to put a similar symbol on all it does, indicating...
It used to be people could laugh at themselves. George Burns wrote a book called “Dr. Burn’s Prescription for Happiness” (1985), and most of it is him laughing at himself or his printing of his friends laughing at him. Steve Allen: “I was very excited about George’s...
