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Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'l...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is about US. Through our cause we are getting a self, our worth. That means we MUST despise and demonize the opposition. If we get our...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of av...

Soul of the Age: Selected Letters, 1891-1962

The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by man has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. ...

The Secret Teachings of All Ages

No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and - as a special class within the whole - mental events, to which it belongs as a reacting member and which it carries on. Through the condition at any moment of its somatic, es...

My View of the World

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white pe...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Moses needed to learn that God was Jehovah-tsidkenu—the One who is righteous and the source of true acceptance. The staff was symbolic of Moses’ life. God was asking him to let go of it—to give complete control to him. When Moses picked it up, ...

Under His Wings...healing truth for adoptees of all ages

Thor: [sees Thor laugh] You think this is funny? This could have been avoided if you hadn't played with something you don't understand... Tony Stark: I'm sorry... I think it's funny, I think it's a hoot that YOU don't get why we need this! Bruce Bann...

Avengers: Age of Ultron

War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines. War--and it's consumption of life--has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldi...

Life

Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

Devil in a Blue Dress

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

The Dermis Probe

The vast majority of incest begins years before the earliest conceivable age of consent. p4

Father-daughter Incest

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Frankenstein

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

The Forgotten Soldier

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

The Fever

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

The Gilded Age

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Great House

I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.

The Ghosts of the Past

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Emotion as well as reason belongs to the very stuff of history.

Historians In The Middle Ages

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

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