Carlyle Fielding Stewart III

Writings on Democracy, Social Justice, and Religion

Category: Church Folks and Church Life

  • “Two Codes of The Christian Spiritual Warrior.”

    The greatest challenge in the Spiritual Warrior’s life journey is self-mastery, particularly in conflict situations with others. The discipline of self-mastery is one of the hardest lessons of all, requiring total submission to higher principles and a sacred order that does not make war on others or fight to demonstrate manhood, prowess, and power in…

  • Fix What’s Broken And Don’t Break What’s Fixed

    Fix What’s Broken And Don’t Break What’s Fixed

    Friends, pardon me, but I am continually amazed and befuddled at the showcase of incompetency and indifference by some political leaders in this country. How they are hurling this country backwards by refusing to fix the myriad problems which are fracturing and breaking our Democratic Constitutional Republic is utterly astounding. Is there a larger more…

  • “A Church for All People.” (Part One)

    “A Church for All People.” (Part One)

    I got a call late one Sunday night from a faithful leader in the church. The previous Sunday I had preached a sermon on the importance of welcoming all people into the church and creating an open door policy for “whosoever will let him or her come” into the fellowship of Christ Jesus. I preached hard that day and insisted that members…