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To read today’s post and hear the music, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. ***** “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” ~ Eldridge Cleaver In 1968 I read Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver, a book that, in my college days, would move me like few others. He said, in describing 1968, “The destiny of the entire … Continue reading Mark Pearson Remembers 1968
To read today’s post and hear the recording, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. For Americans, and perhaps many others, it is easy to get swept away by what’s been happening in the news these days. It’s as though a giant tsunami has swept over us. We have endured any number of tsunamis in our history. 1776 1861 1929 1941 … Continue reading Remembering 1968
To read today’s post and hear the recording, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. This post is dedicated to my friend Ray Levias, who in high school gave me some of my first real lessons in friendship. Over the past forty years one of the greatest things I’ve learned has been the preeminent importance of the practice of friendship. It’s … Continue reading The Practice of Friendship
To read this post in its optimal format, click the link above, or click here. I’ve consumed hundreds of books on a wide range of topics including history, philosophy, religion, politics and government. I have studied the lives of many of the significant leaders of the past three hundred years. Plus, I worked in Washington DC for ten years and lived half my life in … Continue reading The Struggle of Being Moral
To read this post in its optimal format, click the link above, or click here. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” ~ C.S. Lewis A parent’s relationship to pain cannot help but be passed on to their children. Like many … Continue reading Thoughts on Pain