Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1995

Article Summary:

DIMENSIONS OF SUCCESS

Today it is not uncommon to find some young people not wanting to be named Christians. I suppose this is due in large part to the secular humanism of today in which God is simply a projection of human needs and desires. They properly reject the old idea of a God who filled many people with fear rather than with hope and faith. More . . .

POPULAR GOALS

1. SECURITY is one of the popular goals sought after by a majority today. They want a good job which offers permanent employment, holidays with pay, fairly short hours without too much responsibility and a good pension plan. Pay should be enough to purchase a choice home, modernly equipped, provide a good standard of living, including as much education and as many advantages as possible for the children. More . . .

LOVE VERSES SELF-INTEREST

In Plato we find the doctrine of love as the power which drives to the union with the true and the good itself. In his interpretation of the ideas as the essences of everything he saw them as the "power of being." More . . .

WAY TO GO

When Edmund was 16 years of age the pair of us set out on a daylong canoe trip in the interior of Algonquin Park. We remember getting lost and finding our way again. We were handicapped because we didn't have a compass. More . . .

QUOTABLE

"The Vatican had taken a dim view of Jean-Bertrand Aristide when he was elected president (of Haiti), because he was an ordained priest - a violation of the new canon law's ban on priests running for elective office -...and advocate of the Theology of Liberation... More . . .

ESSAY ON ADAM

There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. More . . .

BIBLICAL SUPERHEROES & HEROINES

And the Lord said to the Publishers: Parents do not clearly remember the stories of the past. It has been many years since they went to Sunday School. They are forgetting to read or tell these wonderful stories to their children. Lo, I will send them books of Bible stories, Testaments both Old and New. And reviewers will weigh them and booksellers will sell them and the parents will buy them and the children will hear them. More . . .

 

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