Category: Moral Courage
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Yes! Christians Can Be Angry Especially When Politicians Are Destroying Our Country.
The issue is not that Christians are allowed to be angry or even outraged at what Trump and his quislings are doing to America but how Christians choose to interpret and respond to such bold-faced bullying in the belligerent theft of our country. There are two basic things that we can control in the transactions…
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The Failure of Moral Courage, Volume One
“Moral courage refers to the ability to act in alignment with one’s ethical beliefs, even in the face of personal risk, adversity or social pressure. It involves standing up for what is right, whether challenging an unjust system, speaking out against harmful behavior, or resisting the temptation to compromise one’s values for convenience and safety.…
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“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…
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Quotable Quotes on Power 4
“Dissents speak to a future age. It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.’ But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today, but for tomorrow.”…
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Quotable Quotes on Power 3
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” James Baldwin But the danger of America’s looming democracy crisis is much more than an accumulation of travesties. And it won’t…
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A Living Hell.
As a person of deep religious convictions,”hell” is not a word that I take lightly nor is the word “evil.” We are living in evil times and the absence of true moral leadership from our President, the GOP and other persons have needlessly created a form of living hell for many Americans. Great leaders shepherd…
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In The End America Loses If We Don’t Do What is Morally Right To Strengthen and Save Our Democracy.
The racial animus and personal attacks by President Donald J. Trump “parlayed” against various members of the Democratic Party along with the deafening silence and refusal of some Republican cohorts and base supporters to publicly denounce such strident incrimination, painfully demonstrate how low we have sunk as a nation into the politics of resentment…
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What Manner of Men?
Looking down the darkened corridors of American Democracy, I still see faint flickers of light clustering and creating new pathways of hope for the American people as they make their way outward and upward to greater dreams and brighter days. That men in their monumental selfishness, unbridled recklessness and ossified arrogance would so carelessly wield…
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Time for Silencing of the Lames: Nanci Pelosi Should Once Again Become Speaker of the House
The seventeen Democrats led by Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Bill Foster of Illinois along with numerous freshmen who have petitioned other Democrats against supporting Nanci Pelosi as Speaker of the House next January should stand down. Now is not the time for newly elected Democrats to quibble over who will lead them this next…
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” The Problem of Procedural Injustice.”
The crises now facing American Liberal Democracy may have as much to do with the denial of procedural justice by politicians as it does the aversion of distributive justice for everyday Americans through failed political processes, corrupt political leaders and a broken political system. Such grievous injustices have been evidenced most recently by the refusal…