Podcasts about Reinhold Niebuhr

“Uiteindelijk wordt het kwade niet zozeer gedaan door slechte mensen, maar door goede mensen, die zichzelf niet kennen en zich onvoldoende verdiepen”  Op deze manier drukte Reinhold Niebuhr uit dat we bescheiden moeten zijn met onze pretenties, ook als we het goede voor ogen hebben.  Hoe voorkomt een onrustig geweten volgens Niebuhr dat we doorslaan in cynisme of utopisme? Waarom moeten we lachen om ons falen? En waarom zagen Martin Luther King, Jimmy Carter, John McCain en Barack Obama Niebuhr als hun grote inspiratiebron?  Te gast is Simon Polinder De denker die centraal staat is Niebuhr 

Wiglaf Droste prägte einst den Satz von den "schweren Jahren ab dreiunddreißig." Mina Richman setzt mit ihrer am Freitag erscheinenden neuen EP "Past 25" sogar noch eine ganze Ecke früher an – plädiert mit ihren pointierten Texten und feinen Pop-Songs mit aber überzeugend dafür, das Älterwerden nicht zu fürchten, sondern als Chance oder gar als Privileg zu schätzen. Überhaupt ist (Selbst-)Akzeptanz ein großes Thema der 1998 in Berlin geborenen und in Bad Salzuflen aufgewachsenen Deutsch-Iranerin: In der Vorab-Single "A.D.H.D." beispielsweise besingt sie so selbstironisch wie -bewusst das Leben als neurodivergente Person mit Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten auf der einen und überschäumender Kreativität auf der anderen Seite der Medaille: "If you ask me, it’s not a disease and I wouldn’t trade it, cause it makes me so creative!" Ganz dem berühmten Gebet von Reinhold Niebuhr entsprechend, weiß die queere Musikerin aber nicht nur den unveränderbaren Gegebenheiten Positives abzugewinnen, sondern diese auch von nicht hinnehmbaren Ungerechtigkeiten zu unterscheiden – und besitzt den Mut, ihre Stimme in der Hoffnung auf Verbesserung zu erheben. So wurde ihr Song "Baba Said" 2022 zu einer der inoffiziellen Hymnen der iranischen Frauenrechtsbewegung und stand sie zwei Jahre später mit Bela B auf der Bühne, um bei einer Berliner Demo gegen Rechtsextremismus mit ihm den Ärzte-Klassiker "Schrei nach Liebe" zu spielen. Im selben Jahr erschien auch ihr erster Langspieler "Grown Up", den der Musikexpress zum "bemerkenswertesten Debütalbum dieses Frühjahrs" kürte. Nun legt Mina Richman also mit "Past 25" nach und geht damit in Kürze auch auf große Deutschland-Tour, die am 6. April in Berlin Station macht. Wir sind gespannt, was sie darüber im Interview zu erzählen hat und freuen uns darauf, anschließend auch schon den ein oder anderen neuen Song live zu hören, wenn sie uns heute im studioeins besucht.

Wiglaf Droste prägte einst den Satz von den "schweren Jahren ab dreiunddreißig." Mina Richman setzt mit ihrer am Freitag erscheinenden neuen EP "Past 25" sogar noch eine ganze Ecke früher an – plädiert mit ihren pointierten Texten und feinen Pop-Songs mit aber überzeugend dafür, das Älterwerden nicht zu fürchten, sondern als Chance oder gar als Privileg zu schätzen. Überhaupt ist (Selbst-)Akzeptanz ein großes Thema der 1998 in Berlin geborenen und in Bad Salzuflen aufgewachsenen Deutsch-Iranerin: In der Vorab-Single "A.D.H.D." beispielsweise besingt sie so selbstironisch wie -bewusst das Leben als neurodivergente Person mit Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten auf der einen und überschäumender Kreativität auf der anderen Seite der Medaille: "If you ask me, it’s not a disease and I wouldn’t trade it, cause it makes me so creative!" Ganz dem berühmten Gebet von Reinhold Niebuhr entsprechend, weiß die queere Musikerin aber nicht nur den unveränderbaren Gegebenheiten Positives abzugewinnen, sondern diese auch von nicht hinnehmbaren Ungerechtigkeiten zu unterscheiden – und besitzt den Mut, ihre Stimme in der Hoffnung auf Verbesserung zu erheben. So wurde ihr Song "Baba Said" 2022 zu einer der inoffiziellen Hymnen der iranischen Frauenrechtsbewegung und stand sie zwei Jahre später mit Bela B auf der Bühne, um bei einer Berliner Demo gegen Rechtsextremismus mit ihm den Ärzte-Klassiker "Schrei nach Liebe" zu spielen. Im selben Jahr erschien auch ihr erster Langspieler "Grown Up", den der Musikexpress zum "bemerkenswertesten Debütalbum dieses Frühjahrs" kürte. Nun legt Mina Richman also mit "Past 25" nach und geht damit in Kürze auch auf große Deutschland-Tour, die am 6. April in Berlin Station macht. Wir sind gespannt, was sie darüber im Interview zu erzählen hat und freuen uns darauf, anschließend auch schon den ein oder anderen neuen Song live zu hören, wenn sie uns heute im studioeins besucht.

Wiglaf Droste prägte einst den Satz von den "schweren Jahren ab dreiunddreißig." Mina Richman setzt mit ihrer am Freitag erscheinenden neuen EP "Past 25" sogar noch eine ganze Ecke früher an – plädiert mit ihren pointierten Texten und feinen Pop-Songs mit aber überzeugend dafür, das Älterwerden nicht zu fürchten, sondern als Chance oder gar als Privileg zu schätzen. Überhaupt ist (Selbst-)Akzeptanz ein großes Thema der 1998 in Berlin geborenen und in Bad Salzuflen aufgewachsenen Deutsch-Iranerin: In der Vorab-Single "A.D.H.D." beispielsweise besingt sie so selbstironisch wie -bewusst das Leben als neurodivergente Person mit Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten auf der einen und überschäumender Kreativität auf der anderen Seite der Medaille: "If you ask me, it’s not a disease and I wouldn’t trade it, cause it makes me so creative!" Ganz dem berühmten Gebet von Reinhold Niebuhr entsprechend, weiß die queere Musikerin aber nicht nur den unveränderbaren Gegebenheiten Positives abzugewinnen, sondern diese auch von nicht hinnehmbaren Ungerechtigkeiten zu unterscheiden – und besitzt den Mut, ihre Stimme in der Hoffnung auf Verbesserung zu erheben. So wurde ihr Song "Baba Said" 2022 zu einer der inoffiziellen Hymnen der iranischen Frauenrechtsbewegung und stand sie zwei Jahre später mit Bela B auf der Bühne, um bei einer Berliner Demo gegen Rechtsextremismus mit ihm den Ärzte-Klassiker "Schrei nach Liebe" zu spielen. Im selben Jahr erschien auch ihr erster Langspieler "Grown Up", den der Musikexpress zum "bemerkenswertesten Debütalbum dieses Frühjahrs" kürte. Nun legt Mina Richman also mit "Past 25" nach und geht damit in Kürze auch auf große Deutschland-Tour, die am 6. April in Berlin Station macht. Wir sind gespannt, was sie darüber im Interview zu erzählen hat und freuen uns darauf, anschließend auch schon den ein oder anderen neuen Song live zu hören, wenn sie uns heute im studioeins besucht.

Wiglaf Droste prägte einst den Satz von den "schweren Jahren ab dreiunddreißig." Mina Richman setzt mit ihrer am Freitag erscheinenden neuen EP "Past 25" sogar noch eine ganze Ecke früher an – plädiert mit ihren pointierten Texten und feinen Pop-Songs mit aber überzeugend dafür, das Älterwerden nicht zu fürchten, sondern als Chance oder gar als Privileg zu schätzen. Überhaupt ist (Selbst-)Akzeptanz ein großes Thema der 1998 in Berlin geborenen und in Bad Salzuflen aufgewachsenen Deutsch-Iranerin: In der Vorab-Single "A.D.H.D." beispielsweise besingt sie so selbstironisch wie -bewusst das Leben als neurodivergente Person mit Konzentrationsschwierigkeiten auf der einen und überschäumender Kreativität auf der anderen Seite der Medaille: "If you ask me, it’s not a disease and I wouldn’t trade it, cause it makes me so creative!" Ganz dem berühmten Gebet von Reinhold Niebuhr entsprechend, weiß die queere Musikerin aber nicht nur den unveränderbaren Gegebenheiten Positives abzugewinnen, sondern diese auch von nicht hinnehmbaren Ungerechtigkeiten zu unterscheiden – und besitzt den Mut, ihre Stimme in der Hoffnung auf Verbesserung zu erheben. So wurde ihr Song "Baba Said" 2022 zu einer der inoffiziellen Hymnen der iranischen Frauenrechtsbewegung und stand sie zwei Jahre später mit Bela B auf der Bühne, um bei einer Berliner Demo gegen Rechtsextremismus mit ihm den Ärzte-Klassiker "Schrei nach Liebe" zu spielen. Im selben Jahr erschien auch ihr erster Langspieler "Grown Up", den der Musikexpress zum "bemerkenswertesten Debütalbum dieses Frühjahrs" kürte. Nun legt Mina Richman also mit "Past 25" nach und geht damit in Kürze auch auf große Deutschland-Tour, die am 6. April in Berlin Station macht. Wir sind gespannt, was sie darüber im Interview zu erzählen hat und freuen uns darauf, anschließend auch schon den ein oder anderen neuen Song live zu hören, wenn sie uns heute im studioeins besucht.

"LOVE IS THE GREATEST.""Even greater than faith, or hope, or any other thing.We celebrate the love of Valentine's Day and appropriately so. That loving celebration is fun, romantic, even emotional. It is a day set aside once to live love and to express our love to all, but especially so to someone special.Love is a word difficult of definition. In fact, it has many component parts. Love is complex, defining itself, manifesting itself in so many different ways. But love is a force without which we can not live, or live right. It is the stuff of life, and without it, life is mere existence, sterile and harsh. Love is the force, the resource of God, an energy which produces the highest and best relationships with OTHERS, and, as we love ourselves, allows us to live life at its highest levels.TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED IS THE GREATEST HAPPINESS OF EXISTENCE. Sosaid Sydnie Smith.Love out and in is a daily process which produces the greatest happiness. It does indeed. Nothing feels better than to give love, share love, and experience love.NOTHING.""If you had no one to love, you would never be hurt. But, you would never grow. You would never venture outside your own self-centered needs and perceptions. Your heart would never be cracked open so that God could enter it. To love and love unconditionally is to take risks, and especially the risk of rejection. But nothing energizes and cleanses like love.Profound words about love by a poet unknown. To love another, large or small, is the only real way that one can grow as a human being. The risk of loving produces the risk of hurt but even hurt toughens and matures love. The risk of loving another allows one to VENTURE OUTSIDE and to experience. Doing that allows your very own heart to be CRACKED OPEN so that love in its purest sense could enter, that is God Himself. Loving is always risky, and especially the risk of rejection. Rejection hurts but it is part of the loving process. The risk of love is worth it because nothingenergizes like love, and nothing cleanses like love, NOTHING.""Charles Dickens said that a loving heart is the truest wisdom. Knowing life at its best, the most real and the truest wisdom can only be produced by a loving heart, a heart cracked open and wanting more love.""Robert Schuller said that in the presence of love, miracles happen. Love itself is a miracle and the loving miracle produces other miracles. Miracles can and should happen more often and they can and will happen when:LOVE IS AT WORKTrue love allows us insight, real insight into the character and persona of another:“BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I CATCH GLIMPSES OF THE YOU GOD CREATED, THE TRUE YOU. I SEE YOUR IMPERFECTIONS AND FAILURES, BUT I CHOOSE TO SEE PAST THEM TO THE REAL YOU. LOVE CREATES A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE FREETO BECOME YOUR COMPLETE SELF.”""What a marvelous statement. Perhaps we can only really know another not completely but only with glimpses and those glimpses made possible only because of love.We are all riddled with imperfections and failures, are we not? We can see past things in our desire to find the real person, the real you. Love breaks down those barriers and produces eyes that truly see.Benjamin Disraeli the great English Prime Minister said that:“WE ARE ALL BORN TO LOVE. IT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF ITS EXISTENCE AND ITS ONLY END.”""Born to love, genetic, all that we really are, the very highest principle itself of existence. And, its only end, like the highest and greatest spiritual commandment that we should love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. In fact, we are known as Christians, followers of the Christ:IF YOU HAVE LOVE ONE FOR ANOTHERLove said another is tough, practical, and active. Love is washing the kitchen floor over and over again. Love is scrubbing the toilet and doing the laundry. Love is taking out the garbage and cleaning the refrigerator. Love is smiling when you are tired, finding reasons to laugh even when you are angry, volunteering for a dirty job, working hard, and making the world a better place.Powerful and profound. Indeed, love is practical. Love is very much in the scrubbing of the toilet. Love is there from the one who takes out the garbage. Love indeed delights in the dirty jobs for when you do for the least of these, you do it unto HIM.""And yet more insight into the God of all love:GOD SAYS TO US, IN LOVE, I HOLD YOU IN MY MIND. I REMEMBER YOU. I HOLD ALL OF THE PIECES OF YOU. THE PAST WOUNDS AND THE PRESENT. AND INLOVE, I KNIT THEM TOGETHER INTO THE PERSON I LOVE, THE PERSON I CREATED TO GIVE ME JOY:""YOU.""Held are we in the mind of God, remembering us even as we remember Him, all of our various pieces, wounds, wrongs, and problems no matter. God knits them together and all become the mosaic, the person God loves, the individual and special you.Love frees us of the weight and pain of life! True love always lightens life's heaviestburdens. True love is a force far more powerful than the weapons of any enemy.Life is a flower of which love is the honey, so said Victor Hugo. Love is knit into the very cells of our bodies. It is written into our DNA. It is encoded in the chemicals that make plants green. It is that which makes the sky blue, the substance of the song of the birds in summer, the whisper of the wind in the trees, the silence of the snow as it falls. Love is the voice of God calling to us endlessly and passionately through all HIS marvelous creation.There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives out fear. The more one loves, the less there is of which to be afraid. Love secures and drives our insecurity. Love at work is the most powerful force and energy of all.Take away love, said Robert Browning, and our earth is a tomb. Without love, life is like dead, lifeless, even meaningless. And, if you wish to be loved, LOVE. Any time that is not spent on love is time wasted.True love is a durable fire in the mind ever-burning, never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning, so said Sir Walter Raleigh. The durable fire of love burns unquenchable, always alive, always energizing.The great artist Vincent Van Gogh said:“THE HEART THAT LOVES IS ALWAYS YOUNG. LOVE IS A MARVELOUS BEAUTIFIER. LOVE IS ART AT WORK. I ALWAYS THINK THAT THE BEST WAY TO KNOW GOD IS TO LOVE MANY THINGS.”""Indeed, all of art is love at work and there really can be no great art without love. It beautifies and brings out the best in everything.Here, the words of Thomas Merton:“THE BEGINNING OF LOVE IS TO LET THOSE WHO LOVE BE PERFECTLYTHEMSELVES, AND NOT TO TWIST THEM TO FIT OUR OWN IMAGE. OTHERWISE,WE LOVE ONLY THE REFLECTION OF OURSELVES WE FIND IN THEM.”""The more we are perfectly ourselves, living to our highest and best, the more and better of us there is.Love cures people, the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Love conquers all things, so said the ancient poet, Virgil.""Love allows us to believe so fully and firmly in God even when He is silent!The great thinker-theologian Soren Kierkegaard profoundly stated that when one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world, no matter how imperfect becomes rich and beautiful. It consists solely of opportunities for love.It is love, said Thomas Mann, not reason that is stronger than death. And that love, stronger than and which conquers death is the love of the Christ on the cross and the resurrection which followed.To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others, said Francois Mauriac. Life is replete with invisible miracles which can only be revealed by love at work.If you love somebody, tell them, so said Rod McKuen. The telling unleashes the energy and the power of love.The heart has its reasons which reason alone can not understand, so said the thinker Blaise Pascal. Love is a dimension in life different from and beyond reason itself. The more the mind the less the heart and consequently the less love. Reason no matter how wise can never understand love.The great theologian Paul Tillich said that the first beauty of love is to listen. One who loves wants to listen more than talk, listen to every word, every expression of thought and emotion which comes from the one loved. Listening, really listening in a caring way, may very well be the highest attribute of true love.For those who love, time is eternity. Love is God's finger on man's shoulder. Love is like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and to give thanks for another day of loving. Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson said:“TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL.”""Love indeed is risky, the risk of rejection but a life lived without true love is a life never really lived at all.I love you, says Anna Corbin, as you are, not as you wish to be. I love you for the real person you are, not the imaginary perhaps I fantasize you could be. I love the real,amazing, utterly unique YOU.""Love in the ultimate, unconditional, love so REAL.If you love until it hurts, really hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love said the wonderfully loving Mother Teresa. True love at work drives away the hurt.""Looking back, said one, I have this to regret. That too often when I loved, I did not say so. Love uncommunicated is love aborted. It is there but never shared. More time is spent judging people which leaves less time to love them.Zelda Fitzgerald said that nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much love the heart can hold. There is no limit to love, none whatsoever. Love is there, always and love takes up when knowledge leaves off. In fact, love is the supreme knowledge, superior to all else.Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Love at work produces the holiest of the holies. The great English statesman William E. Gladstone said the following:“WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE TIME WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE WILL REPLACE THE LOVE OF POWER. THEN WILL OUR WORLD KNOW THE BLESSINGS OF PEACE. POWER KILLS LOVE AND WITHOUT LOVE, THERE IS NO PEACE. THERE ISNOTHING MORE POWERFUL BEFORE AND EVER AGAIN THAN LOVE.”""The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr said the following:“WE ARE SAVED BY THE FINAL FORM OF LOVE, WHICH IS FORGIVENESS. FORGIVING AND FORGETTING ARE THE HIGHEST ACTS OF LOVE RESULTING IN OUR SALVATION. THERE WAS ONE, YEARS AGO, DRIVEN TO THE CROSS BY THE LOVE OF MANKIND PROVIDING IN HIS DEATH THE LIFE AND THE LOVE WE LEAD.THE CROSS WAS THE FINAL AND FORGIVING FORM OF LOVE.”""The crucifixion of the Christ on the cross was indeed the ultimate act of love. The great writer C.S. Lewis said the following:“TO LOVE AT ALL IS TO BE VULNERABLE. LOVE ANYTHING AND YOUR HEART WILL CERTAINLY BE WRUNG AND POSSIBLY BROKEN. LOVE BREAKS DOWN ALL BARRIERS, OPENS WIDE THE HEART, EXPOSES TRUE INNOCENCE AND RISKS THE WRINGING AND THE BREAKING OF THIS MORE PRIZED POSSESSION. REAL LOVE DEMANDS THIS, CONSTANTLY.”Sir Arthur Pinero said that “those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of old age, but they die young at heart.”That deep love here and now is but a prelude to the perfect love there. In fact, they are one love contiguous and continuous. Love is both earthly and eternal. Love never dies. For there is only one real happiness in life and that is to love and to be loved.The great writer Ralph Waldo Emerson said:“NEVER SELF-POSSESSED OR PRUDENT, LOVE IS ALL ABANDONMENT.”""True love is pure risk, always. Love at work risks hurt to the self and rejection by another. But the risk at work is what makes the word of love so special.""Vulnerability, openness, risk but so great reward.Hear then the marvelous words of the great poet William Wordsworth:“A PERSON CAN BE SO CHANGED BY LOVE AS TO BE UNRECOGNIZABLE AS THE SAME PERSON. LOVE TRANSFORMS, REGENERATES. LOVE PRODUCES CHANGE, EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYONE. LOVE BETTERS WHAT IS BEST!”""The great philosopher Plato said that love is the best friend of human kind, the helper and the healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness. In fact, love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries and without them, humanity can not survive. And for some real definition of the word love, hear the words of Saint Augustine:“WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? WHY, IT HAS HANDS TO HELP OTHERS. IT HAS FEET TO HASTEN TO THE POOR AND NEEDY. IT HAS EYES TO SEE MISERY AND WANT. IT HAS EARS TO HEAR THE SIGHS AND SORROWS OF HUMANKIND. THATIS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE!”""Amen and amen. Hands and feet at work, eyes and ears to see and hear human need. Love at work is what love really is.Love comes supreme and most innocently from a child. A child's love is pure, uncomplicated, unconditional, fully trusting. Such innocence opens deep the world of feeling and emotion and it is a return to that childlike love and that ability to love which alone can make complete the adult version of that child. May we all be wise enough to return to the innocent love of a little child.And so my friends, my fellow Americans, we the Crawford Broadcasting Company wish you all of the love possible on Valentine's Day and during Valentine's week. May love in all its forms permeate your life and may you know the supreme love of the One who laid down His life for you. Live love every day and know the real and true meaning of life.And finally, the profound words of poet Emily Dickenson:“IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKINGI SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAINIF I CAN EASE ONE LIFE THE ACHING OR COOL ONE PAINOR HELP ONE FAINTING ROBIN IN TO HIS NEST AGAINI SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN!”""Love is the greatest!"

คอลัมน์ “สดแต่เช้า”ปีที่4 (302) ความสุขสงบ? “เรามอบสันติสุขไว้กับพวกท่าน สันติสุขของเราที่ให้กับท่านนั้น เราไม่ได้ให้อย่างที่โลกให้ อย่าให้ใจของท่านเป็นทุกข์ อย่ากลัวเลย”‭‭ ~ยอห์น‬ ‭14‬:‭27‬ ‭THSV11‬‬ “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”‭‭ ~John‬ ‭14‬:‭27‬ ‭NIV‬‬ พระเยซูคริสต์ทรงสัญญาที่จะมอบ สันติสุข ให้แก่เรา ซึ่งเป็น ความสุขสงบ ที่ไม่ใช่ความสุขสันติอย่างที่โลกนี้รู้จัก หรือสามารถให้ได้ Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) หรือเรียกสั้นๆว่า“ไรน์โฮลด์ นีบัวร์“( Reinhold Niebuhr)เป็นนักศาสนศาสตร์ อาจารย์โรงเรียนพระคริสตธรรม นักจริยธรรม นักอรรถาธิบายการเมือง ชาวอเมริกัน ท่านมีผลงานชิ้นเยี่ยมเป็นที่รู้จักกันทั่วหลายเรื่อง ซึ่งหนึ่งในนั้นเกี่ยวกับคำอธิษฐาน ขอความสุขสงบ ที่มีชื่อว่า Serenity Prayer (คำอธิษฐานขอความสุขสงบ)“God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”(ขอพระเจ้า ทรงประทานใจสงบให้แก่ฉัน ที่จะยอมรับสิ่งที่ฉันไม่อาจเปลี่ยนแปลงอะไรได้ขอพระเจ้าทรงประทานความหาญกล้าให้แก่ฉัน ที่จะเปลี่ยนแปลงในสิ่งที่ฉันอาจเปลี่ยนแปลงได้และขอพระองค์ประทานสติปัญญา ที่จะแยกแยะความแตกต่างระหว่างของทั้งสองสิ่งนั้นได้!)“Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as He did, this sinful worldas it is, not as I would have it;“(ขอให้ฉันอยู่ได้วันต่อวันให้เพลิดเพลินได้ทีละช่วงเวลาให้ยอมรับความยากลำบากว่าเป็นหนทางสู่สันติสุขให้ยอมรับโลกที่เปี่ยมด้วยบาปนี้อย่างที่มันเป็น ไม่ใช่อย่างที่ฉันอยากให้เป็น)“trusting that He will make all things rightif I surrender to His Will; that I may be reasonably happy in this lifeand supremely happy with Himforever in the next.“ (ขอให้ฉันวางใจว่าพระองค์เจ้าจะทำให้สิ่งทั้งปวงล้วนถูกต้องถ้าฉันยอมจำนนต่อน้ำพระทัยของพระองค์เพื่อฉันจะได้มีความสุขในชีวิตนี้ และ มีความสุขมากยิ่งขึ้นตลอดไปในโลกหน้า) Amen. (อาเมน) พี่น้องที่รัก วันนี้คุณมีสันติสุขหรือมีความสงบสุขในใจแล้วหรือยัง? คำอธิษฐาน ที่เรียกว่า “ Serenity Prayer”(คำอธิษฐานขอความสุขสงบ) ข้างต้นนั้น ช่วยอะไรคุณได้บ้างหรือไม่? ขอให้ นับจากนี้ไป คุณจะรับมือกับ “สิ่งที่ไม่อาจเปลี่ยนแปลง” หรือ “สิ่งที่ยากลำบาก”1.ในชีวิตและ2.ในการรับใช้ ของคุณ ได้ง่ายขึ้นนะครับ! ขอให้คุณมีความสงบสุขได้ในทุกที่ แม้แต่ในที่ที่มีเสบียงกรัง เพียงเล็กน้อย เหมือนดังที่พระธรรม สุภาษิตกล่าวว่า “เสบียงกรังหน่อยหนึ่งพร้อมกับความสงบสุข ดีกว่าบ้านที่เต็มด้วยงานเลี้ยงพร้อมกับการวิวาท”‭‭ ~สุภาษิต‬ ‭17‬:‭1‬ ‭THSV11‬‬(A dry crust of bread eaten in peace and quiet is better than a feast eaten where everyone argues.) …อาเมนไหมครับ?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ธงชัย ประดับชนานุรัตน์27มกราคม 2025#YoutubeCJCONNECT #thongchaibsc#คริสตจักรแห่งความรัก #churchoflove #ShareTheLoveForward #ChurchOfJoy #คริสตจักรแห่งความสุข #NimitmaiChristianChurch #คริสตจักรนิมิตใหม่ #ฮักกัยประเทศไทย #อัลฟ่า #หนึ่งล้านความดี #SoulFoodPodcastsSpotify

Guest host David Horton and Clay discuss New Year's resolutions. Never more important than at present. People across the political spectrum are nervous about the next years of American life. But what's to be done? Clay offers several ways of coping—taking up a craft that involves one's hands and not merely one's brain, reading with discipline and purpose, learning from Aristotle's dictum that wisdom is knowing which battles to fight and which to leave alone, and much more. Clay and David wind up quoting Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity prayer in unison. Read the complete works of your favorite author. And when things really go south, watch Leslie Nielsen films: Naked Gun, Airplane, Naked Gun 2 ½.

How can you learn to love uncertainty? Is it better to cultivate acceptance or strive for change? And, after 223 episodes, what is the meaning of life?  SOURCES:Jessica Alquist, professor of psychology at Texas Tech University.Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at The University of Queensland.Raymond Carver, 20th-century American short story writer and poet.Stephen Colbert, comedian and late-night TV host.Matt Damon, actor and film producer.Viktor Frankl, 20th-century Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher.Steve Heine, professor of psychology at University of British Columbia.Charles Krauthammer, journalist.Reinhold Niebuhr, 20th-century American theologian.Keanu Reeves, actor.Elisabeth Sifton, author, editor, and book publisher. RESOURCES:Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times, by Steve Heine (2025)."Learning to Love Uncertainty," by Jessica L. Alquist and Roy F. Baumeister (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2024)."Confused or Curious? Openness/Intellect Predicts More Positive Interest-Confusion Relations," by Kirill Fayn, Paul J. Silvia, Egon Dejonckheere, Stijn Verdonck, and Peter Kuppens (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2019)."A Note to Readers," by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2018)."Interest — The Curious Emotion," by Paul J. Silvia (Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2008).The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War, by Elisabeth Sifton (2003)."Late Fragment," by Raymond Carver (A New Path to the Waterfall, 1989).Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl (1946). EXTRAS:"What Makes an Idea Interesting?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."Should You Get Out of Your Comfort Zone?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."Do You Need Closure?" by No Stupid Questions (2024)."Secret o' Life," by James Taylor (JT, 1977).

Welcome to another episode of "Restoring the Soul with Michael John Cusick." In today's episode, part two of our conversation with Peter Zaremba, we embark on a journey through the concepts of control, powerlessness, and acceptance. Michael opens with the profound Serenity Prayer, elegantly setting the tone for discussions on letting go and embracing peace through acceptance.Our dialogue delves deep into the biblical teachings on contentment and the spiritual wisdom of the 12-step program. Peter shares his transformative experiences, discovering strength in acknowledging powerlessness and trusting a greater power. Michael breaks down the "circle of control" and explores the mental and emotional shifts required for true detachment from outcomes.Together, we reflect on balancing brain functions to foster greater awareness and approach life with joy rather than stress. We also touch on the transformative impact of the 12-step practices in daily life, from personal prayer routines to handling emotional pain and judgment.ENGAGE THE RESTORING THE SOUL PODCAST:- Follow us on YouTube - Tweet us at @michaeljcusick and @PodcastRTS- Like us on Facebook- Follow us on Instagram & Twitter- Follow Michael on Twitter- Email us at info@restoringthesoul.com Thanks for listening!

When we cannot change our circumstances, Jesus is still there to comfort us. #theloriclineshow Interested in learning more about becoming a devoted follower of Christ? Go to follow.lifeword.org! ~~~ What is something you wish so desperately you could change, right now, but you cannot? If you're like me, I have a mile long list. It's a crazy feeling isn't it? This isn't right. I want to make it right. This wasn't supposed to be this way. How can I fix this? This is not how my story was to be written. What can I do to change it? Is there a REDO button for this day or this chapter of life? When life doesn't turn out like we expected or the big waves almost knock us down, we all must come to a place we simply understand that we are NOT in control. It's that ‘throw your hands in the air' moment of surrender. Broken moments, broken chapters, broken pieces of our lives that are beyond our control, are the very moments God uses to remind us, He IS our only hope. He is the ONE who holds it all together and no matter how many pieces there may be to our life, He is the only one who can put them back together in a way we would have never imagined. He is there, IN every moment, wanting to carrying us through it. How does a child let you know they want to be carried? They put their hands in the air. We must do the same. We come to a place where we accept the reality that we can't, and God can. When we rest in that, there is peace. Are you familiar with the serenity prayer? It's a prayer to God asking for calmness and peace in all matters of life. It was written by Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr and promoted and published in the nineteen thirties and forties. There are two versions and I want to read you both. The short version is this, O God grant me... the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the difference, Amen. The full version reads like this, God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have it, Trusting that You will make all things right, If I surrender to Your will, So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, And supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen. The line that makes me smile is, ‘so I may be reasonably happy in this life'. There are things we can't change and there are things we can. What I love about this prayer is it is full of surrender, while at the same time accepting responsibility. God calls us to water walk in seasons and He also calls us to be carried. My prayer is that whatever any day may hold that I always know who holds it. Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Jesus holds me together, ever single day. I'm so grateful He does. Whether you choose to trust Him or not, He holds you too. He is IN it all and working through it all for your good. Believing that brings peace and accepting what we cannot change, is serenity. That's the truth. If you're struggling with what you cannot control, trust Jesus with it. One day all things will be made right, but until that day, we walk, rest and move by faith and find peace only when WE let go. I'm Lori Cline.

As Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Otis Moss carries the torch for generations of church and civil rights leaders, including his own father, a regional director in the SCLC, and a friend of Dr. Martin Luther King. But it is his late sister Daphne whose influence most impacts his ministry and social advocacy. A brilliant young woman who struggled with schizophrenia, Daphne introduced a young Otis to what he calls “the continuum” – a spirituality born of poetry, literature and jazz that has woven its way through our history. Drawing as much from the beats of J Dilla as from the speeches of Dr. King; from the politics of Public Enemy as from the poetry of Langston Hughes; from John Coltrane and Miles Davis as from Reinhold Niebuhr and Abraham Joshua Heschel, Pastor Moss shares a timely, deeply personal story about the American jazz narrative — how a disparate and diverse people who are not supposed to make music together do — and do so beautifully.Music by Ryan Holladay and Jonathan Mouton. Follow Jonathan on Instagram: @entertainer4lyfeIf this episode resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you. Please take a moment to share your reflections by rating and reviewing Meditative Story in your podcast player. It helps other listeners find their way to the show, and we'd be so grateful.Each episode of Meditative Story combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with immersive music and gentle mindfulness prompts. Read the transcript for this story: meditativestory.comSign up for the Meditative Story newsletter: https://meditativestory.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today's Nugget of Wisdom is a reading of the Serenity Prayer, by Reinhold Niebuhr. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Go to One Whole Being to receive a free healing session for your heart to feel more love, joy and emotional freedom Additional resources from Martin Book a free 30 minute 1-1 discovery session with Martin Read Martin's new book - the Way of Embracing - a path to joy, love and freedom Listen to his new album of 36 Sound Healings for Sensitive Souls "I secretly love Martin Lowndes and wanted to share my secret love today. For all those who might want to spend a few minutes listening to their heart, Martin has such a lovely way." James Reeves, best selling author of the Book of Rest "Martin provides a positive and shining light to those seeking a way out of the patterns of suffering. He has the ability to facilitate a transformation of consciousness and his 'The Way of Embracing' contains a profound transmission that will quite literally raise your spirit...." Blue Marsden - Hay House Author "I feel so blessed to have met Martin. He is such an incredible healer with very special powers. I feel he is a kind of catalyst that triggers and shifts something within me every time. I would like to call him Archangel Martin because of his special powers. " Bernadett Pal - Holistic Healer "Martin has helped me to accept myself more as a work in progress than a fixed being. Thank you Martin. I feel this has started me on a journey, because it's created a powerful link to listen to my own heart and follow its loving guidance." Rosemary, Mother, Grandmother and Teacher "Quite simply Martin has guided me to my light that was already there. I have been able to let go (and continue to do so) so much that has been suppressed deep within my being. Thank you Martin from the wholeness of my being." Leila Al-Badawi - Mother and Documentary Maker "From the first meeting we had, the quality of Martin's kindness and capacity for active listening impressed me. I felt deeply heard and clearly seen. After our first full session, I knew I would be in good hands and I immediately signed up for a group of sessions. The work I have done with Martin has had a profound impact on my life. I already had a long experience of inner work and had reached the stage where I needed support to integrate core areas of my being. Martin had the experience, wisdom, and skills to take me through this process. I have felt enormously safe with Martin. His integrity and authenticity help to create a very safe space to do sensitive work. I would happily recommend Martin to anyone." Alex Rawlings "What an amazing resource you have created. Thank you !" Katherine Enskat Go to One Whole Being to receive a free healing session for your heart to feel more love, joy and emotional freedom

Reading List:* “When Liberalism Was at Its Best,” Parts 1 (Isaiah Berlin), 2 (Lionel Trilling), and 3 (Reinhold Niebuhr), by Damon Linker.* “Philosophy and the Far Right”—Part 1 and Part 2* “Conservatism and Skepticism”—Part 1 and Part 2My guest on the show today is Damon Linker, perhaps the nation's most enthusiastic, unapologetic center leftist (he and Matt Yglesias occasionally punch it out for the title in an underground fight club built in the tunnels under the charred timbers of the former headquarters of the New Republic). Damon is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, writes the Notes from the Middle Ground newsletters on Substack, is a senior fellow with the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, and is the author of two books, The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege and The Religious Test: Why We Must Question the Beliefs of Our Leaders.I asked Damon on the show to discuss his recent series of essays on three of the seminal thinkers of post-war liberalism, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, the literary critic Lionel Trilling, and the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. We also got into his conflicted feelings about the philosopher Leo Strauss and the movement—Straussianism—that he birthed.Eminent Americans is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Eminent Americans at danieloppenheimer.substack.com/subscribe

Georgetown University professor Joseph Hartman joins me to discuss the 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and why he still matters today.

This is Ronnie's fifth in a series of talks exploring the Book of Ecclesiastes alongside the work of Viktor Frankl. “If possible, we change our fate. If necessary, we willingly accept it…what can be overcome, must be overcome. What cannot be overcome, must be accepted. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” That sounds very much like words written about the same time, not from a Jewish Holocaust survivor, but a Christian theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr. You've heard his words many times I suspect: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” 

LOVE IS THE GREATEST.Even greater than faith, or hope, or any other thing.We celebrate the love of Valentine's Day and appropriately so. That loving celebration is fun, romantic, even emotional. It is a day set aside once to live love and to express our love to all, but especially so to someone special.Love is a word difficult of definition. In fact, it has many component parts. Love is complex, defining itself, manifesting itself in so many different ways. But love is a force without which we can not live, or live right. It is the stuff of life, and without it, life is mere existence, sterile and harsh. Love is the force, the resource of God, an energy which produces the highest and best relationships with OTHERS, and, as we love ourselves, allows us to live life at its highest levels.TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED IS THE GREATEST HAPPINESS OF EXISTENCE. So said Sydnie Smith.Love out and in is a daily process which produces the greatest happiness. It does indeed. Nothing feels better than to give love, share love, and experience love. NOTHING.If you had no one to love, you would never be hurt. But, you would never grow. You would never venture outside your own self-centered needs and perceptions. Your heart would never be cracked open so that God could enter it. To love and love unconditionally is to take risks, and especially the risk of rejection. But nothing energizes and cleanses like love.Profound words about love by a poet unknown. To love another, large or small, is the only real way that one can grow as a human being. The risk of loving produces the risk of hurt but even hurt toughens and matures love. The risk of loving another allows one to VENTURE OUTSIDE and to experience. Doing that allows your very own heart to be CRACKED OPEN so that love in its purest sense could enter, that is God Himself. Loving is always risky, and especially the risk of rejection. Rejection hurts but it is part of the loving process. The risk of love is worth it because nothing energizes like love, and nothing cleanses like love, NOTHING.Charles Dickens said that a loving heart is the truest wisdom. Knowing life at its best, the most real and the truest wisdom can only be produced by a loving heart, a heart cracked open and wanting more love.Robert Schuller said that in the presence of love, miracles happen. Love itself is amiracle and the loving miracle produces other miracles. Miracles can and shouldhappen more often and they can and will happen when:LOVE IS AT WORKTrue love allows us insight, real insight into the character and persona of another:“BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I CATCH GLIMPSES OF THE YOU GOD CREATED, THETRUE YOU. I SEE YOUR IMPERFECTIONS AND FAILURES, BUT I CHOOSE TO SEEPAST THEM TO THE REAL YOU. LOVE CREATES A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE FREETO BECOME YOUR COMPLETE SELF.”What a marvelous statement. Perhaps we can only really know another not completelybut only with glimpses and those glimpses made possible only because of love.We are all riddled with imperfections and failures, are we not? We can see past thingsin our desire to find the real person, the real you. Love breaks down those barriersand produces eyes that truly see.Benjamin Disraeli the great English Prime Minister said that:“WE ARE ALL BORN TO LOVE. IT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF ITS EXISTENCE AND ITSONLY END.”Born to love, genetic, all that we really are, the very highest principle itself of existence.And, its only end, like the highest and greatest spiritual commandment that we shouldlove the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength and our neighboras ourselves. In fact, we are known as Christians, followers of the Christ:IF YOU HAVE LOVE ONE FOR ANOTHERLove said another is tough, practical, and active. Love is washing the kitchen floorover and over again. Love is scrubbing the toilet and doing the laundry. Love is takingout the garbage and cleaning the refrigerator. Love is smiling when you are tired,finding reasons to laugh even when you are angry, volunteering for a dirty job, workinghard, and making the world a better place.Powerful and profound. Indeed, love is practical. Love is very much in the scrubbingof the toilet. Love is there from the one who takes out the garbage. Love indeeddelights in the dirty jobs for when you do for the least of these, you do it unto HIM.And yet more insight into the God of all love:GOD SAYS TO US, IN LOVE, I HOLD YOU IN MY MIND. I REMEMBER YOU. I HOLDALL OF THE PIECES OF YOU. THE PAST WOUNDS AND THE PRESENT. AND INLOVE, I KNIT THEM TOGETHER INTO THE PERSON I LOVE, THE PERSON ICREATED TO GIVE ME JOY:YOU.Held are we in the mind of God, remembering us even as we remember Him, all of ourvarious pieces, wounds, wrongs, and problems no matter. God knits them togetherand all become the mosaic, the person God loves, the individual and special you.Love frees us of the weight and pain of life! True love always lightens life's heaviestburdens. True love is a force far more powerful than the weapons of any enemy.Life is a flower of which love is the honey, so said Victor Hugo. Love is knit into thevery cells of our bodies. It is written into our DNA. It is encoded in the chemicals thatmake plants green. It is that which makes the sky blue, the substance of the song ofthe birds in summer, the whisper of the wind in the trees, the silence of the snow as itfalls. Love is the voice of God calling to us endlessly and passionately through all HISmarvelous creation.There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives out fear. The more one loves, the less thereis of which to be afraid. Love secures and drives our insecurity. Love at work is themost powerful force and energy of all.Take away love, said Robert Browning, and our earth is a tomb. Without love, life islike dead, lifeless, even meaningless. And, if you wish to be loved, LOVE. Any timethat is not spent on love is time wasted.True love is a durable fire in the mind ever-burning, never sick, never old, never dead,from itself never turning, so said Sir Walter Raleigh. The durable fire of love burnsunquenchable, always alive, always energizing.The great artist Vincent Van Gogh said:“THE HEART THAT LOVES IS ALWAYS YOUNG. LOVE IS A MARVELOUSBEAUTIFIER. LOVE IS ART AT WORK. I ALWAYS THINK THAT THE BEST WAY TOKNOW GOD IS TO LOVE MANY THINGS.”Indeed, all of art is love at work and there really can be no great art without love. Itbeautifies and brings out the best in everything.Here, the words of Thomas Merton:“THE BEGINNING OF LOVE IS TO LET THOSE WHO LOVE BE PERFECTLYTHEMSELVES, AND NOT TO TWIST THEM TO FIT OUR OWN IMAGE. OTHERWISE,WE LOVE ONLY THE REFLECTION OF OURSELVES WE FIND IN THEM.”The more we are perfectly ourselves, living to our highest and best, the more andbetter of us there is.Love cures people, the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Love conquers allthings, so said the ancient poet, Virgil.Love allows us to believe so fully and firmly in God even when He is silent!The great thinker-theologian Soren Kierkegaard profoundly stated that when one hasonce fully entered the realm of love, the world, no matter how imperfect becomes richand beautiful. It consists solely of opportunities for love.It is love, said Thomas Mann, not reason that is stronger than death. And that love,stronger than and which conquers death is the love of the Christ on the cross and theresurrection which followed.To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others, said Francois Mauriac. Life isreplete with invisible miracles which can only be revealed by love at work.If you love somebody, tell them, so said Rod McKuen. The telling unleashes the energyand the power of love.The heart has its reasons which reason alone can not understand, so said the thinkerBlaise Pascal. Love is a dimension in life different from and beyond reason itself. Themore the mind the less the heart and consequently the less love. Reason no matterhow wise can never understand love.The great theologian Paul Tillich said that the first beauty of love is to listen. One wholoves wants to listen more than talk, listen to every word, every expression of thoughtand emotion which comes from the one loved. Listening, really listening in a caringway, may very well be the highest attribute of true love.For those who love, time is eternity. Love is God's finger on man's shoulder. Love islike a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with awinged heart and to give thanks for another day of loving. Love is a symbol of eternity.It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of anend.Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson said:“TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL.”Love indeed is risky, the risk of rejection but a life lived without true love is a life neverreally lived at all.I love you, says Anna Corbin, as you are, not as you wish to be. I love you for the realperson you are, not the imaginary perhaps I fantasize you could be. I love the real,amazing, utterly unique YOU.Love in the ultimate, unconditional, love so REAL.If you love until it hurts, really hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love saidthe wonderfully loving Mother Teresa. True love at work drives away the hurt.Looking back, said one, I have this to regret. That too often when I loved, I did not sayso. Love uncommunicated is love aborted. It is there but never shared. More time isspent judging people which leaves less time to love them.Zelda Fitzgerald said that nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much lovethe heart can hold. There is no limit to love, none whatsoever. Love is there, alwaysand love takes up when knowledge leaves off. In fact, love is the supreme knowledge,superior to all else.Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Love at workproduces the holiest of the holies. The great English statesman William E. Gladstonesaid the following:“WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE TIME WHEN THE POWER OF LOVE WILL REPLACETHE LOVE OF POWER. THEN WILL OUR WORLD KNOW THE BLESSINGS OFPEACE. POWER KILLS LOVE AND WITHOUT LOVE, THERE IS NO PEACE. THERE ISNOTHING MORE POWERFUL BEFORE AND EVER AGAIN THAN LOVE.”The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr said the following:“WE ARE SAVED BY THE FINAL FORM OF LOVE, WHICH IS FORGIVENESS.FORGIVING AND FORGETTING ARE THE HIGHEST ACTS OF LOVE RESULTING INOUR SALVATION. THERE WAS ONE, YEARS AGO, DRIVEN TO THE CROSS BY THELOVE OF MANKIND PROVIDING IN HIS DEATH THE LIFE AND THE LOVE WE LEAD.THE CROSS WAS THE FINAL AND FORGIVING FORM OF LOVE.”The crucifixion of the Christ on the cross was indeed the ultimate act of love.The great writer C.S. Lewis said the following:“TO LOVE AT ALL IS TO BE VULNERABLE. LOVE ANYTHING AND YOUR HEARTWILL CERTAINLY BE WRUNG AND POSSIBLY BROKEN. LOVE BREAKS DOWN ALLBARRIERS, OPENS WIDE THE HEART, EXPOSES TRUE INNOCENCE AND RISKS THEWRINGING AND THE BREAKING OF THIS MORE PRIZED POSSESSION. REAL LOVEDEMANDS THIS, CONSTANTLY.”Sir Arthur Pinero said that “those who love deeply never grow old. They may die of oldage, but they die young at heart.”That deep love here and now is but a prelude to the perfect love there. In fact, they areone love contiguous and continuous. Love is both earthly and eternal. Love neverdies. For there is only one real happiness in life and that is to love and to be loved.The great writer Ralph Waldo Emerson said:“NEVER SELF-POSSESSED OR PRUDENT, LOVE IS ALL ABANDONMENT.”True love is pure risk, always. Love at work risks hurt to the self and rejection byanother. But the risk at work is what makes the word of love so special.Vulnerability, openness, risk but so great reward.Hear then the marvelous words of the great poet William Wordsworth:“A PERSON CAN BE SO CHANGED BY LOVE AS TO BE UNRECOGNIZABLE AS THESAME PERSON. LOVE TRANSFORMS, REGENERATES. LOVE PRODUCES CHANGE,EVERYWHERE AND IN EVERYONE. LOVE BETTERS WHAT IS BEST!”The great philosopher Plato said that love is the best friend of human kind, the helperand the healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness. In fact, love andcompassion are necessities, not luxuries and without them, humanity can not survive.And for some real definition of the word love, hear the words of Saint Augustine:“WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? WHY, IT HAS HANDS TO HELP OTHERS. IT HASFEET TO HASTEN TO THE POOR AND NEEDY. IT HAS EYES TO SEE MISERY ANDWANT. IT HAS EARS TO HEAR THE SIGHS AND SORROWS OF HUMANKIND. THATIS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE!”Amen and amen. Hands and feet at work, eyes and ears to see and hear human need.Love at work is what love really is.Love comes supreme and most innocently from a child. A child's love is pure,uncomplicated, unconditional, fully trusting. Such innocence opens deep the world offeeling and emotion and it is a return to that childlike love and that ability to lovewhich alone can make complete the adult version of that child. May we all be wiseenough to return to the innocent love of a little child.And so my friends, my fellow Americans, we the Crawford Broadcasting Company wishyou all of the love possible on Valentine's Day and during Valentine's week. May lovein all its forms permeate your life and may you know the supreme love of the One wholaid down His life for you. Live love every day and know the real and true meaning oflife.And finally, the profound words of poet Emily Dickenson:“IF I CAN STOP ONE HEART FROM BREAKINGI SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAINIF I CAN EASE ONE LIFE THE ACHINGOR COOL ONE PAINOR HELP ONE FAINTING ROBININ TO HIS NEST AGAINI SHALL NOT LIVE IN VAIN!”Love is the greatest!

Over the last few years, I have returned more often than I could have imagined to the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and his vision of Christian Realism. Between the rise of Trump, growing disappointment in Biden, and inaction on the most pressing issues… to name a few… my inherent optimism in the democratic experiment has… Read more about Kevin Carnahan: Moral Clarity & the Uneasy Conscience

Over the last few years, I have returned more often than I could have imagined to the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and his vision of Christian Realism. Between the rise of Trump, growing disappointment in Biden, and inaction on the most pressing issues... to name a few... my inherent optimism in the democratic experiment has waned.  So, I decided to have Dr. Kevin Carnahan on the podcast to unpack Christian Realism and how this particular theological lens could help me wrestle with my growing disease. Kevin Carnahan is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Central Methodist University in Fayette, MO. He recently stepped down after five years of service as co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, is the former president of The Niebuhr Society, and author of multiple books and articles on religion, ethics, and politics. He lives in Columbia, MO with his wife and two daughters. For more fast, nerdy fun hot takes from Kevin, check out his TikTok:) Kevin's recommendations for those wanting to get into Niebuhr are Langdon Gilkey's On Niebuhr and Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism by Robin Lovin. You can also check out these two previous episodes with Scott Paeth on Niebuhr: On Reinhold & Richard Niebuhr and Why Go Niebuhr? JOIN the HISTORICAL JESUS class with Dom Crossan Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This morning we were blessed to hear from Pastor Dale as he began a new series of teachings about the “First Things” of the Christian Life, things we do together as a church. Over the next several weeks we will look at Faith, Discipleship, Worship, Ministry, Life in the Spirit, and Community. This morning our focus was on faith.Faith is not just that moment of "belief" when we accept Jesus into our lives. It's not simply what we know, a structure of thought, or emotions. Faith is something we carry through all the circumstances of our lives, the ups and downs, when things go the way we'd hoped, and when they don't go the way we hoped. Even when we have this kind of faith or trust in Jesus, over time something happens to us. Our initial joy, trust, and belief can get worn down.Scripture shows us faith has a persevering quality. Pastor Dale took us through several verses on faith that can be found here. What we learn from these verses is that faith is not what you believe, it is who you believe in. Faith is confident action in response to a living God, an activity rather than a possession. The activity of faith shows up in how we interact with the things we humanly value most, things like money, our family, our time. Faith involves ordinary people, in ordinary life, trusting God with the outcome. Faith says "Even though I can't control the outcome, I trust you."There is a well-known prayer called the "Serenity Prayer." Many of us are familiar with the beginning of the prayer, but the whole prayer has a deep and enriching connection to the process of developing the kind of faith that perseveres.“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with Him forever in the next. Amen.” - Reinhold Niebuhr (1926)As you go through this week, we invite you to pray through the serenity prayer, to meditate on the words, and seek God's guidance on what he's asking you to surrender control over to Him, to trust that God has you, loves you, and will provide all that you need and more.

Delighting in Khurram Hussain's consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). But there is much more to this splendid book, framed around the profoundly consequential conceptual and political question of can Muslims serve not as friends or foes but as critics of Western modernity. Hussain addresses this question through a close and energetic reading of key selections from the scholarly oeuvre of the hugely influential yet often misunderstood modern South Asian Muslim scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898). By putting Khan in contrapuntal conversation with a range of Western philosophers including Reinhold Niebuhr (d.1971), Hannah Arendt (d.1975), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-), Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” whereby Muslim actors are invariably pulverized by the sledgehammer of modern Western commensurability to emerge as either friends or enemies. This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Delighting in Khurram Hussain's consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). But there is much more to this splendid book, framed around the profoundly consequential conceptual and political question of can Muslims serve not as friends or foes but as critics of Western modernity. Hussain addresses this question through a close and energetic reading of key selections from the scholarly oeuvre of the hugely influential yet often misunderstood modern South Asian Muslim scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898). By putting Khan in contrapuntal conversation with a range of Western philosophers including Reinhold Niebuhr (d.1971), Hannah Arendt (d.1975), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-), Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” whereby Muslim actors are invariably pulverized by the sledgehammer of modern Western commensurability to emerge as either friends or enemies. This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Delighting in Khurram Hussain's consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). But there is much more to this splendid book, framed around the profoundly consequential conceptual and political question of can Muslims serve not as friends or foes but as critics of Western modernity. Hussain addresses this question through a close and energetic reading of key selections from the scholarly oeuvre of the hugely influential yet often misunderstood modern South Asian Muslim scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898). By putting Khan in contrapuntal conversation with a range of Western philosophers including Reinhold Niebuhr (d.1971), Hannah Arendt (d.1975), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-), Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” whereby Muslim actors are invariably pulverized by the sledgehammer of modern Western commensurability to emerge as either friends or enemies. This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Delighting in Khurram Hussain's consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). But there is much more to this splendid book, framed around the profoundly consequential conceptual and political question of can Muslims serve not as friends or foes but as critics of Western modernity. Hussain addresses this question through a close and energetic reading of key selections from the scholarly oeuvre of the hugely influential yet often misunderstood modern South Asian Muslim scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898). By putting Khan in contrapuntal conversation with a range of Western philosophers including Reinhold Niebuhr (d.1971), Hannah Arendt (d.1975), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-), Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” whereby Muslim actors are invariably pulverized by the sledgehammer of modern Western commensurability to emerge as either friends or enemies. This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Delighting in Khurram Hussain's consistently sparkling prose is reason enough to read his new book Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). But there is much more to this splendid book, framed around the profoundly consequential conceptual and political question of can Muslims serve not as friends or foes but as critics of Western modernity. Hussain addresses this question through a close and energetic reading of key selections from the scholarly oeuvre of the hugely influential yet often misunderstood modern South Asian Muslim scholar Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898). By putting Khan in contrapuntal conversation with a range of Western philosophers including Reinhold Niebuhr (d.1971), Hannah Arendt (d.1975), and Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-), Hussain explores ways in which Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thought on profound questions of moral obligations, knowledge, Jihad, and time disrupts a politics of “either/or” whereby Muslim actors are invariably pulverized by the sledgehammer of modern Western commensurability to emerge as either friends or enemies. This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His academic publications are available here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a famous twentieth century Christian, was a dynamic and occasionally controversial theologian who became a household name because of his character and courage. When it mattered the most, in a time when many of his fellow Germans—including pastors and priests—embraced Hitler and the Nationalist ideas of the Third Reich, Bonhoeffer stood with conviction.   After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the bulk of German Protestant groups submitted to the oversight of pro-Nazi leaders. These so-called “German Christians” compromised the eternal truths of God to a racist, statist, and eugenicist totalitarian regime. Because of their compromise, they were left free to practice their faith, as long they did not transgress Nazi doctrine.  Bonhoeffer, with others such as Martin Niemöller and Karl Barth, did transgress. They also stood against compromising churchmen. Bonhoeffer helped found the dissident Confessing Church and underground seminaries and was among those who published the defiant Barmen Declaration. Rejecting his earlier pacifism, he took on an active role in resistance to Hitler's tyranny, eventually joining the plot to assassinate the madman.  Though Bonhoeffer has been rightly praised for his faithfulness and courage in each of these activities, his most courageous act may have been simply going home. In the early years of the Nazi terror, Bonhoeffer went first to the United Kingdom and then the United States, taking up teaching positions in a free, safe part of the world.   His conscience, however, did not let him remain in safety while his nation was facing and committing such evil. In 1939, just weeks before the war began, Bonhoeffer returned to Germany. Writing to the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, he explained, “I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.”  Despite his courage, Bonhoeffer wasn't perfect. His theology, at times, strays and is puzzling. In fact, one of his most important co-laborers, Karl Barth, had his own theological complications and moral failings. This is a theme that frequently emerges in Christian history. Figures as prominent as Martin Luther and Martin Luther King, Jr., though used by God in incredible ways, were flawed in behavior and belief.   This fits well with the heroes described in Holy Scripture. The author of Hebrews, in chapter 11, offers a list of champions for God that is rightly described as the Bible's Hall of Faith. Even the best of the list, men like Abraham and Moses, are as famous for their flaws as their victories. In the cases of some who are included, like Samson, Gideon, and Jephthah, it's difficult to understand how they are even heroes. Yet there they are included among the others.  The danger in refusing to honor the imperfect isn't just the temptation to whitewash others' sins while excusing our own. It's also the temptation to wait for an imaginary tomorrow when everything is just right rather than working today to oppose what's wrong. And it is here that we can learn another lesson from Bonhoeffer. In his book Ethics, he called on Christians to be faithful in the here and now, writing,  Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living.  For Bonhoeffer, the Christian faith must be lived in the time and place in which God places us. In that sense, courage and faith are inseparable. We must do the right thing, even if the cost is great and even if we feel inadequate for the task.  God has called you and me into this tempest of the living. As James instructs, Christianity is not merely believing the right things but doing them, empowered by the Spirit given to us in Christ Jesus. This will mean risk. It may mean failure. But it's through the imperfect faith of His people that God is at work renewing His world.  This Breakpoint was co-authored by Dr. Timothy Padgett. For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, go to breakpoint.org. 

SCRIPTURE Ezekiel 35:1-36:38 James 1:1-18 Psalm 116:1-19 Proverbs 27:23-27 AFFIRMATION: I have faith in what my future holds because I know who holds my future. APHORISM: Our lives are a tug-of-war between faith and reason, as they nourish and consume each other in a constant struggle. Embrace this tension, use it as a catalyst for growth, agility in your thinking, and wisdom in your decisions. ~Adapted from Reinhold Niebuhr ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Verses 'n' Flow | Donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by Tim D. Clinton --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jenniferwainwright/message

As a human with limited means,  It helps me to know when to quit,  And let go of control so that the flow,  Of life can take care of it. ☉ Reinhold Niebuhr said: "Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Astrology connects strength and courage to Mars, which is now even stronger, conjunct the Sun. However, as I speak of in today's report, it is the WISDOM that we need at this time to know our limits, boundaries, morals, truth, and capacity so we don't violate our own or other's boundaries.  For wisdom, we call on Jupiter, the focal planet of this week's Yod. Now, more than ever, we need to tap down deeply within and get a realistic assessment of ourselves in order to do right. This is the beauty of Scorpio! As we "close out" this Scorpio season, let's remember that this is a sign signifying the tenacious, passionate search for truth. Scorpio is the investigator that will not be deterred, bullshitted, deceived, or stopped from digging its way to the truth.  One beautiful aspect of the Scorpionic archetype is the depth of loyalty, commitment, and devotion they give to who and what they love. Indeed, this is a sign that will go all the way with you, and expect that you go all the way with them! Keeping that in mind, you can make this a special week of forging deep bonds with another, you just need to be sure they are the right one! Back to Jupiterian wisdom! This week's song is Fortunate! https://youtu.be/51fd01dbPdg?si=dnoWQ4XQq91GtCBR 

Christopher Chivvis, director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, discusses the work of renowned realist thinker Reinhold Niebuhr. He explores Niebuhr's views on war, politics, and American Exceptionalism, and argues that Niebuhr's restraint-oriented ideas are just what is needed in contemporary debates about U.S. foreign and national security policy, particularly with respect to the rivalry with China. Show NotesChristopher Chivvis bioChristopher S. Chivvis, “The Humility of Restraint: Niebuhr's Insights for a More Grounded Twenty-First-Century American Foreign Policy,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace working paper, November 22, 2021.Christopher S. Chivvis, “Some Politicians Seem Comfortable with the Idea of a New Cold War. They Shouldn't.” The Guardian, February 22, 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After giving Tillich his due in the last episode, in this one Sarah goes off, more or less blaming Tillich and his book The Courage to Be for everything that has gone wrong in American Lutheranism for the past 75 years. Overwrought and unjust? Probably. Dad makes the case for Tillich at least asking the right questions, and not accepting certain false solutions. But we both agree there is a more excellent way. If nothing else, you'll enjoy hearing the generation gap on display as you've never before heard it on this podcast! Notes: 1. Tillich, The Courage to Be 2. Related episodes: Oh, Anselm!!!, Reinhold Niebuhr, Barth Ain't So Bad, Bonhoeffer's Christology 3. For universality from specificity rather than the other way around, consider my novel A-Tumblin' Down What do you think five years of top-quality theology podcasting is worth? Register your vote by joining our highly select band of Patrons. Get some cool swag and support your favorite podcast in remaining stridently independent and advertising-free!

Today's podcast will focus on the Serenity Prayer, often attributed to the American theologian and philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr. The prayer offers us the opportunity in times of great stress and discord to re-center our thoughts and actions where they can be helpful and constructive. 

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In 2 Corinthians 6, Paul lists several hardships he's faced, yet after a whole passage of naming them, it doesn't end in despair. Somehow, accepting hardship was a pathway forward to peace which helped him see life in its wider perspective. SLIDES GEORGE READ "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.”  -Matthew 11:28, The Message God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking the world as it is, trusting that You will make all things right. Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer

Hey friends! :) I'm Jennifer LaGuardia, always here with you to be your encouraging voice! :) I wanted to chat with you about a timeless prayer that has radically impacted my life… it was written by Reinhold Niebuhr…called the “Serenity prayer”… “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…Courage to change the things I can…and wisdom to know the difference." I took a step back one day and opened myself up to God in a way I genuinely thought I had but then realized …I really hadn't.  Once  I asked God to align my heart and mind with the much higher thoughts and desires of His Heart and Mind, God revealed to me exactly what I needed to let go of trying to change…He gave me peace about just letting it go. But on the flip side, He revealed to me what  I absolutely did need to change. I felt such a sense of urgency, I felt like I needed to make those changes happen as soon as yesterday! Lol I  asked God for help to stop obsessing over the stuff that just isn't in my control…And to get laser focused and clear on what I need to pour my time and energy into. How to be discerning about who and what is in Divine Alignment for my life.  And …I asked God to help me release to Him anything that I just need to walk away from, or just leave entrusted in His loving care.   Friends, if any of you would love prayer about any of this, it's my happiness and joy to pray along side you …right here, right now…  

Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. — and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father — as well as the nation's most mourned martyr. Shermer and Eig discuss: how to write biography • the history of the King family going back to slavery, Jim Crow, etc. • the influence of King Sr. on Martin's intellectual and emotional development and the Ebenezer Baptist Church • King's early experience with racism in the south • King's religious beliefs and the influence of his faith on his civil rights activism • the influence of Gandhi and Reinhold Niebuhr on King's strategic activism and deep belief in nonviolence • King's politics • Malcolm X • Native Americans • gay rights • accusations of plagiarism, and more… Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for the Wall Street Journal. He is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Ali: A Life; Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig; and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season. Ken Burns calls him “a master storyteller,” and Eig's books have been listed among the best of the year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Sports Illustrated, and Slate. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

We're witnessing radical changes in our culture. Topics ranging from gender identity and sexual boundaries to living "your truth" are making both headlines and appearances in our daily life. And many times, these issues run counter to what we believe as women of faith. So how do we adapt to a shifting culture and still pursue what we know to be true? In this episode of This Grit and Grace Life, Darlene Brock and Julie Bender discuss the ways that traditional values and the understanding of what's right or wrong have changed over the years, touching on topics like casual sex and family dynamics. They also share how we as women of faith can embrace truth and navigate these new waters through grace and compassion, rather than judgment through measuring sin. Are you willing to sit and talk with someone whose beliefs or decisions differ greatly from your own? God designed a perfect life for us to live. Our job is to pursue His truth—which includes loving others the way He would. Quote of the episode: “Truth, couched in mercy and grace, is the only thing we can find hope in." —Darlene Brock Resources Mentions: —Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr —"Are Women Being Marginalized—Again?" Related: —How Do I Raise My Kids when the Culture and Bible Collide? with Dr. Jim Denison – 177 —"So, We Disagree—Can We Still Talk?" Follow Us on Social Media! Facebook Instagram   Twitter Pinterest

We're witnessing radical changes in our culture. Topics ranging from gender identity and sexual boundaries to living "your truth" are making both headlines and appearances in our daily life. And many times, these issues run counter to what we believe as women of faith. So how do we adapt to a shifting culture and still pursue what we know to be true? In this episode of This Grit and Grace Life, Darlene Brock and Julie Bender discuss the ways that traditional values and the understanding of what's right or wrong have changed over the years, touching on topics like casual sex and family dynamics. They also share how we as women of faith can embrace truth and navigate these new waters through grace and compassion, rather than judgment through measuring sin. Are you willing to sit and talk with someone whose beliefs or decisions differ greatly from your own? God designed a perfect life for us to live. Our job is to pursue His truth—which includes loving others the way He would. Quote of the episode: “Truth, couched in mercy and grace, is the only thing we can find hope in." —Darlene Brock Resources Mentions: —Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr —"Are Women Being Marginalized—Again?" Related: —How Do I Raise My Kids when the Culture and Bible Collide? with Dr. Jim Denison – 177 —"So, We Disagree—Can We Still Talk?" Follow Us on Social Media! Facebook Instagram   Twitter Pinterest

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comJon is the chief national correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of “The Long Game” podcast. His first book was Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party, and his new book is Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation. You can also follow Jon's writing on his substack, Border-Stalkers, and on his website, jonwardwrites.org.For two clips of our convo — on the joys of being evangelical Christian, and the sexual struggles of male evangelicals — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Jon growing up in the Jesus Movement in the '70s and '80s; speaking in tongues; the insecurity of evangelicals toward mainstream culture; Catholic hymns vs the music of evangelicals; Catholicism as anti-subjective and anti-emotional compared to evangelicalism; when the Southern Baptist Convention tolerated abortion; the evangelical and Catholic alliance after Roe v. Wade; Paul Weyrich; Reinhold Niebuhr; Frederick Buechner; structural sin; Calvinism and predestination; Saint Francis; the indifference of Jesus toward gender roles; same-sex marriage and the Mormon settlement over it; Garry Wills' Constantine's Sword; Kevin Hasson's The Right to Be Wrong; how Christians should embrace political loss; Christianism and Trump; and the crosses wheeled out on January 6.Heads up that the Dish is taking Holy Week off as our spring break. See you back on the pod the Friday after the Good one. Happy Easter and Passover!

Jimmy Carter has a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” and he believes that “Jesus Christ would approve gay marriage.” Lesson learned: the American liberal theology of the 20th century yielded the liberal politics of the 20th century. And, beware of pat religious phrases stuffed with the wrong theology.  We analyze former President Jimmy Carter's faith rooted in the fatal theology of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. . . as he approaches the end of his life.  Pray for him. This program includes: 1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus (Ugandan police rescued 50 children, Christian college v. Biden over dorms, The Ark Encounter and Creation Museum top 2 religious museums) 2. Generations with Kevin Swanson

Jimmy Carter has a -personal relationship with Jesus Christ,- and he believes that -Jesus Christ would approve gay marriage.- Lesson learned- the American liberal theology of the 20th century yielded the liberal politics of the 20th century. And, beware of pat religious phrases stuffed with the wrong theology. We analyze former President Jimmy Carter's faith rooted in the fatal theology of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr . . . as he approaches the end of his life. Pray for him.

Jimmy Carter has a -personal relationship with Jesus Christ,- and he believes that -Jesus Christ would approve gay marriage.- Lesson learned- the American liberal theology of the 20th century yielded the liberal politics of the 20th century. And, beware of pat-religious phrases stuffed with the wrong theology.--We analyze former President Jimmy Carter's faith rooted in the fatal theology of Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. . . as he approaches the end of his life.--Pray for him.--This program includes---1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus -Ugandan police rescued 50 children, Christian college v. Biden over dorms, The Ark Encounter and Creation Museum top 2 religious museums---2. Generations with Kevin Swanson

Buddy got his start playing with country superstar Jerry Reed's band. He has played at a Billy Graham crusade before 250,000 people in Central Park, NY, and ten years later played the “William Tell Overture” on harmonica at Carnegie Hall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoauBe465qQ). Buddy feels equally at home playing with Jeff Taylor at Station Inn or reading a book by Reinhold Niebuhr in the back of a tour bus. And as a songwriter, he is best known for having written – with Mark Lowry – the Christmas classic, “Mary, Did You Know.”

Valentine's Day Special: The hosts interview prominent lawyer and columnist, Gordon Mehler, on his recent article which chronicles the unlikely friendship between Reinhold Niebuhr and Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous. N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. George Lindbeck didn’t do any of those, as far as I know, but in certain circles of Christian theologians, he’s indisputably intellectual-famous, opening up possibilities for ecumenical engagement and influencing Stanley Hauerwas and attending Vatican II and such. My own engagement with Lindbeck has been almost exclusively with his 1984 book The Nature of Doctrine, so when I got a chance to read Shaun C. Brown’s recent book George Lindbeck: A Biographical and Theological Introduction, I came away seeing his work in that book as a chapter in a rich and rightly intellectual-famous career. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome the Doctor Reverend Brown to the show.

In our latest profile episode, we provide an overview of the life of pastor & public intellectual Reinhold Niebuhr, who was something we rarely see today - a clergyman who became an important figure on the political Left. Niebuhr led a Protestant church in Detroit, Michigan during the 1910s & 1920s. From his pulpit, he spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan and in favor of organized labor. During the 1940s & 1950s, Niebuhr moved away from pacifism & socialism and became a more mainstream Cold War liberal. He became one of the founders of the anti-Communist ADA organization and wrote books expressing a "Christian realist" view of foreign policy. With the arrival of the turbulent 1960s, Niebuhr reconsidered his support for US Cold War policies overseas; he spoke out in favor of the civil rights movement & against the Vietnam War until his death in 1971. In recent years, his writings have drawn a diverse group of admirers that include Barack Obama & James Comey.Support the show

Lutheran theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attracted numerous followers in postwar America in part because of his attacks on the free market. Perhaps he should have read Mises. Original Article: "Niebuhr, My God, to Thee" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

Lutheran theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attracted numerous followers in postwar America in part because of his attacks on the free market. Perhaps he should have read Mises. Original Article: "Niebuhr, My God, to Thee" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

After three and a half years of dropping not-so-subtle hints, Dad finally persuaded me to read Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man... though in this episode we cover only vol. 1, the "Nature" part. (Stick around with us in Season 5 and you might just get vol. 2!) In this episode we examine Niebuhr's sweeping summation of Western intellectual history and whether it holds up to scrutiny, how the divorce of Renaissance and Reformation gave us all the intractable problems of modernity, the difference between universal sin and unequal guilt, and zero in on the one place where Niebuhr talks more about God than man. Notes: 1. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man; see also his Moral Man and Immoral Society 2. James, Varieties of Religious Experience 3. Related episodes: Hannah Arendt, On Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Do you rejoice every other Tuesday to see a new Queen of the Sciences episode appear? Then consider supporting us on Patreon. You can start at just $2 a month; more gets you swag. Or just pay us a visit at sarahhinlickywilson.com and paulhinlicky.com!

In today's episode, Gina shares seven habits to encourage more peace and serenity in your life. From gratitude and self-observation to calming morning rituals, these tips will help you create more peace and calm in your life! Reduce your anxiety, listen in today! Naked Nutrition Go to https://nakednutrition.com/ and use PROMO CODE ACP to get 15% off on your first order at checkout. Ned If you'd like to conquer sleep with Ned's Dream Set, Anxiety Coaches Podcast listeners get 15% off with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. Thank you Ned for sponsoring the show and offering our listeners a natural remedy for some of life's most common health issues Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special limited-time promotion of 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at https://CALM.COM/ACP Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunday and Wednesday ❤ Access to the entire Ad-free back-catalog with over 600 episodes ❤ Premium meditations recorded with you in mind ❤ And more fun surprises along the way! All this in your favorite podcast app! To learn more go to: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr

In today's episode, Gina shares seven habits to encourage more peace and serenity in your life.  From gratitude and self-observation to calming morning rituals, these tips will help you create more peace and calm in your life!  Reduce your anxiety, listen in today! Naked Nutrition Go to https://nakednutrition.com/ and use PROMO CODE ACP to get 15% off on your first order at checkout. Ned If you'd like to conquer sleep with Ned's Dream Set, Anxiety Coaches Podcast listeners get 15% off with code ACP. Go to https://helloned.com/ACP or enter code ACP at checkout. Thank you Ned for sponsoring the show and offering our listeners a natural remedy for some of life's most common health issues Calm For listeners of the show, Calm is offering a special limited-time promotion of 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at https://CALM.COM/ACP Find even more peace and calm with our Supercast premium access membership! https://anxietycoaches.supercast.com/ Here's what's included for $5/month: ❤ New Ad-Free episodes every Sunday and Wednesday ❤ Access to the entire Ad-free back-catalog with over 600 episodes ❤ Premium meditations recorded with you in mind ❤ And more fun surprises along the way! All this in your favorite podcast app! To learn more go to: https://www.theanxietycoachespodcast.com Join our Group Coaching Full or Mini Membership Program  Learn more about our One-on-One Coaching What is anxiety? Quote: Serenity Prayer God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr