Stan’s Corner, Friday, July 22
For years, I have been taking a religious magazine called The Christian Century which often gives me a knew way to look at something. In the current issue, there is a […]
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Stan’s Corner, July 21
Judie and I were sitting at a restaurant overlooking a sailboat on Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island and it made me think of this wonderful poem: “Sea-Fever” I must go […]
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Stan’s Corner, Wednesday, July 20
Philip Yancey has an interesting insight into Jesus: “The quality of restraint in Jesus—one could almost call it a divine shyness—took me by surprise….I had expected from him the same […]
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Stan’s Corner, Tuesday, July 19
There are times when this scripture speaks to my puzzling human condition and I find comfort in knowing that the author has experienced some of life’s frustrations as I have: […]
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Stan’s Corner, Monday, July 18
Just to note, today is my oldest son’s 50th Birthday–Happy Birthday, Chris, enjoy London for the week! Now, back to Connecticut, the closing words by the new pastor at South […]
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Stan’s Corner, Sunday, July 17
Catherine Neptin-Rieder recently put this on facebook: “It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; […]
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Stan’s Corner, Saturday, July 16
— In 1962, I found this poem in a Junior Hi Sunday School book: “I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might […]
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Stan’s Corner, Friday, July 15
Muhammad said “None of you has faith until you love for your neighbor what you love for yourself.” And a recent Muslim commentator added, “Love of the neighbor is an […]
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Stan’s Corner, Friday, July 15
I am reading a book by a Yale Divinity School professor about Islam who includes a quote from Pope John Paul 2nd in 1965: “We Christians joyfully recognize the religious […]
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Stan’s Corner, Wednesday, July 13
The Upper Room meditation two days ago was on unconditional love which reminded me of a quotation that I have enjoyed for over thirty years. It was probably written first […]