Having What is Hoped For in 2024 [SSL 291]

For the first audio post of 2024, I want to speak about hope and disappointment two things I tend to feel at the end of a year and beginning of a new one sometimes.

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End of 2023—SSL 290: There is no future without this main thing

Closing out 2023, I’m thinking about how we make a better future and I’m featuring insights on forgiveness from Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and the African concept of ubuntu that can make the future possible.

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Personhood means relationship [SSL 289]

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Today, I wanted to bring you just a bit more from Bishop Kallistos Ware. This time about personhood.

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Tracking the new Evangelical interest in Christian Eastern Orthodox [SSL288]

One of the most influential people to bring the gifts of Eastern Orthodox Christianity into the view of the English speaking and Evangelical world is the topic today: Reverend and Bishop Kallistos Ware

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The Curious Life of Benjamin Lay – The Quaker Comet [SSL 287]

Today a true tale. One of intrigue, outrage, and progress that’s been lost to history.

This goes back more than 340 + years. Let me tell you how the tiny but mighty Quaker, Benjamin Lay, with his moral compass intact in a time of rampant suffering through international kidnapping, human trafficking, illegal bondage, and forced labor, used outrageous acts of protest and gave momentum to the abolitionist movement long before the British colonies of America declared independence.

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