Fifteen Ways to Practice the Golden Rule

Jesus was an original thinker, a revolutionary, with a tendency to turn the prevailing ideals upside down.  But when Jesus said, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” he was quoting the Old Testament, reminding his listeners of something they were supposed to know already. And you, my reader, know that […]

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Deafness, Talk and Terror from the Middle East

  In the last ten or more years of her life my mother was quite deaf. The results of her deafness were fascinating once I learned to step back and think about them. First, she tended to fill her silence by talking a lot, a thing she had never done before. Second, she interrupted other […]

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