Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13
“It takes power to be kind because kindness is risky. First, to move toward another person in kindness is to risk misunderstanding. If you are kind to a person, your action may be seen as a veiled seduction. If you are kind to a person of another race, you may be suspected of being patronizing...
Love Within Limits: A Realist’s View of 1 Corinthians 13
“Servant power is personal power used to increase the strength of a weaker person. The best example is the power of a parent to nurture a child into an independent personality. Children need a model of personal power. They have to be confronted with the exercise of it. From a parent who demonstrates such power...
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
The author tells the story of Filemon Sanchez, a Mexican immigrant, who overcame numerous obstacles, including bigotry, to establish a flourishing bakery and restaurant in Grand Island, Nebraska. His odyssey stirs the author to ponder America’s southern border: “I’d seen the walls and barriers rising on the Mexican line, the glass eyes of the surveillance...
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
The author visits Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley’s birthplace, and the museum there. Its executive director, Dick Guyton, illuminates Elvis’s stage presence: His “theory is that Elvis’s church experience, oddly enough, inspired his semi-obscene stage style, those signature bumps and grinds. ‘The preacher in the church he attended as a boy—that preacher played the guitar, he...
Anatomy of a Murder
A veteran court observer: “The prosecutor has a special mind, mongoose quick, bullying, devious, unrelenting, forever baited to ensnare. It is almost duty bound to mislead, and by instinct dotes on confusing and flourishes on weakness. Its search is for blemishes it can present as scars, its obligation to raise doubts or sour with suspicion. ...
Anatomy of a Murder
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
Anatomy of a Murder
A veteran judge speaks: I am endlessly fascinated by the raw drama of a murder trial, of the defendant fighting so inarticulately for his freedom—his is the drama of understatement, of the opposing counsel—those masters of overstatement, flamboyantly fighting for victory, for reputation, for more clients, for political advancement, for God knows what, of then...
Anatomy of a Murder
A veteran attorney speaks: “The law is the busy fireman that puts out society’s brush fires; that gives people a nonphysical method to discharge hostile feelings and settle violent differences; that substitutes orderly ritual for the rule of tooth and claw. The very slowness of the law, its massive impersonality, its insistence on proceeding according...
Anatomy of a Murder
A veteran lawyer points out an obvious difficulty with respect to small-town sheriffs: “How in the name of the blessed saints can you expect a man to turn around and arrest the very people who elect him and keep him in office? It’s contrary to human nature and our rare ‘good’ sheriffs are political freaks...
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Reading For Preaching
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