Giving thanks involves being grateful. Being grateful requires self-awareness—self-definition. Traditionally, the Thanksgiving holiday provides each of us with ...
We put the building blocks of life together in the home. There, we carefully initiate the process of establishing our identity, shaping our self-esteem, buildin...
His rheumy eyes seemed on the verge of imminent discharge—without spark, listless, lacking in spirit—within ill fitting, almost hollow cavities in a tight, hard...
Right from the beginning, William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, was concerned with poverty and all it brought with it. It simply didn’t seem just that t...
There is a direct, potentially progressive relationship between habits, compulsions and addictions that grow more harmful. Here are some definitions with a litt...
Everyone believes that they know what and how children should become educated, and act unafraid in sharing that information. That includes me.
Yet differing ...
I’ve heard it said that The Salvation Army is “compassion in action.”
I think it fits and makes a good slogan. I hope it’s still true. I worry about that. I ...
Except I am moved with compassion,
How dwellest thy Spirit in me?
Albert Orsborn asked that question for Salvationists a few decades ago, and it’s one we ne...
Generosity is a spiritual word. It speaks of the type of relationship between a giver and a receiver.
It synthesizes the “fruit of the spirit” listed by Paul...
Most people have a difficult time explaining character.
It does have several different meanings. Some immediately think of an actor playing a particular part...
I tend to live in the present—the here and now—not the there and then of the past nor the “sometime-maybe” of the future. But life demands that we look ahead, s...
We’re in the values education business. Our goal is to teach people to live God’s way as revealed in the life of Jesus—the Christ. If we live God’s way:
He b...
All of us transit life with varying degrees of stress—some on the short run and some seeming almost permanent. It’s impossible to avoid. Innumerable stressors f...
