Tag Archives: tolerance
Labor Day Sunday 2012 (Listening to Fenalon)
We’re in the middle of a lesson on authentic spiritual community, but it’s Labor Day Sunday and many of us are traveling. So, rather than continue the lesson that’s building one week on the next, I thought I’d just do … Continue reading
Good Power vs. Bad: Insiders and Outsiders
Continuing our look at good and bad power, we turn to how one comes to be a user of the former. How do we become good-power people? Jesus had a lot to say about power, and critical to his teaching was an understanding that successful people, in-group people, tend to become so inwardly focused, they miss the big issues, and trip into the use of bad power. Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, comfort, discernment, humility, Love, Mission, power, tolerance, transformation
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Difficult People
Today we listen to the wisdom of one of the wise men of our Christian heritage. His name was Francois Fenelon. He lived about 400 years ago, and wrote spiritual letters, many of which have survived. In the letter we look at today, he writes about tolerance for people in their weakness. Have a listen. Continue reading
Posted in Tending Our Souls
Tagged Conflict Resolution, difficult people, grace, mercy, tolerance
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A Season of Self-Examination: Ego Consciousness (part 3)
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Posted in The Examined Life
Tagged ancient spiritual paths, community, Holy Spirit, integrity, self-control, The Examined Life, tolerance
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On Tolerance of Other’s Imperfections: Francois Fenelon (follow up)
by Doug Hammack Add synopsis [Download MP3]
Posted in Tolerance (Fenelon)
Tagged community, coping strategies, guilt, Love, loving others, tolerance
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On Tolerance of Other’s Imperfections: Francois Fenelon
by Doug Hammack Add synopsis [Download MP3]