Archive for November, 2004

On Being Good…For Nothing

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

ON BEING GOOD. . . . FOR NOTHING
At a recent meeting with the facilitators of our Community Circles, we spent some time amongst ourselves exploring from a personal level, the meaning and origin of our moral sensibilities. The ensuing discourse led me to the topic of my sermon today.
I suppose most people view morality as […]

Our Moral Purpose

Sunday, November 14th, 2004

The subject is a vast one. I admit that. Moral purpose is a topic with a long, long history of discourse. To mention Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, is to name but only a few of the ancient philosophers who have attempted to understand the origin of morality. Is it of […]

What Now

Thursday, November 11th, 2004

What now? Well, who knows? Depending on whose side one is on, the response to the election has ranged from ecstatic euphoria to tearful anguish and despair. Understandably, there is a lot of critical self-examination going on by the party who lost. The feelings that many are experiencing are not unlike those […]