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Too many "hills to die on" make too many people dead.—————————————- Dogmatic people do not like compromise. Bullies do not like compromise. Most people do not like the "everyone loses something" part of compromise. Most of us prefer it over the "everyone loses everything" possibility and most like the "everyone gets something" side of it.…

Jesus brought a perspective on religion that placed people over ritual and humanity over custom. He did not abolish custom, ritual, religion, and piety, but endowed them with renewed rooting in the relationship of God to humanity. It is a recurring theme in the gospels and is easily lost from generation to generation where we…

Born this day in 1864 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and author (d. 1936). He was author of "The Tragic Sense of Life." Read Tragic Sense of Life "Unamuno was an early existentialist who concerned himself largely with the tension between intellect and emotion, faith and reason. At the heart of his view of…

“Unamuno was an early existentialist who concerned himself largely with the tension between intellect and emotion, faith and reason. At the heart of his view of life was his personal and passionate longing for immortality. “- Britannica  “Unamuno’s philosophy was not systematic but rather a negation of all systems and an affirmation of faith “in itself.”…

Recent Shorts from Tom Sims at The Dream Factory   

Site of the Temple of Artemis in the town of Selçuk, near Ephesus. Demetrius and the artisans had a complaint. Paul was stirring the truth pot urging people to seek God. By Gid, Paul meant, the self-actualizing, self-sufficient, self-defining God of Abraham, God of the nations, God of the universe who had been sub-divided by divine characteristics into…