The conscience is reached by love and humility, not by condemning/belittling/mocking, or by legislating my values on others.  Legislating hate-crimes, removal of statues, and flags, does not reach the conscience.  Self-righteous response to self-righteousness does not reach the conscience.  In my opinion, Hollywood has done more to reach the conscience of whites in America, than…

with Christians because they see in us what mere humans can do.  Human power.  Jesus makes no remarkable difference in our lives.  We are circumstance-dependent for our joy and peace, just like they are.  We do not operate in out-of-character-for-for-us kinds of ways.  We are not more humble than they.  Not more loving.  Not less…

The proud believer is self-deceived.  And filled with irritation/self-contempt, or bummed, in failure.  The proud believer does not handle failure well.  His whole life is based on failure-avoidance.  And this weirds him, and his relationships. The humble believer enjoys himself in failure, and enjoys learning from failure/mistakes.  The proud believer only has fun when things…

Where do I get that?   Why would I even want it?  Because Jesus says to love my enemies — those most different from myself, doing things I would never ever do, because I’m better than they. So how do I get compassion for them, forgive them, extend grace to them, enjoy them?   I find it…