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...later ordained by the Reformed Church in America, his religion business did not take off till he arrived in California two decades ago. He had little more than a $500 grant from his denomination and a simple credo: "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." The hurt, he reasoned, was greatest among agnostic transients flooding the West...
...realize that you're giving someone a few reading skills, hopefully some confidence and security, but that you're trying to heal the scars of decades and that as you prepare to return to Harvard you've ignored a thousand other prisoners. To me it always feels like sending someone in Biafra a care package...
Before you try to educate the public, take a healthy dose of that "basic stuff' you mention and heal thyself...
...miracle. It is quite orthodox Christian theology that miracles are not meant to be simply marvels. That sort of thing, accepted as a commonplace in the 1st century world, was left to pagan magicians. A miracle, rather, is understood as a sign of God's power to heal and save. George Bernard Shaw put it slightly differently. "A miracle," he wrote, "is an event which creates faith...
...mood. To an overwhelming extent, they were preoccupied with rising prices, and with good reason: one out of three families considered itself in serious financial trouble because of inflation. Yet most people thought that neither the Government nor business was likely to provide the leadership and solutions needed to heal the economy. Things seemed out of control to many Americans, and there was a disturbing sense that conditions might soon get even worse. Indeed, nearly one out of two feared that there was no way that the U.S. could avoid an economic depression as serious...