On Gaza … wisdom for the way forward
My friend Eboo Patel offers wise counsel on breaking out of our current solution deadlock in two recent posts at On Faith. The full posts are included with permission below the jump, and are available at the On Faith blog as well ...
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Interested in the economy?
Sam Pizzigati, author of Greed and Good and editor of the online weekly Too Much, recently alerted me about the Income Equity Act, proposed by Barbara Lee, about which he explains ...
This precedent-setting bill would, if enacted, deny corporations tax deductions on any executive compensation that runs over 25 times the pay of a company’s lowest-paid workers.
This legislation is related to the idea of a maximum wage, which I touched on in Everything Must Change. It turns out, I learned from Sam, that Franklin D. Roosevelt "actually proposed what amounted to a maximum wage in 1942." If you're interested in learning more, Sam's complete book is available for online reading here.
The idea of maximum wage theory might seem strange, but perhaps less so if you read the Apostle Paul's words here ....
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encouraging note …
Received this recently ...
I have just read three of your books in the past two weeks (The Secret Message of Jesus, A New Kind of Christian, and Everything Must Change) and I want to personally thank you for helping to change my heart.
I am the same age as yourself, and I was raised to be a Christian, but I have sent the past twenty-four years away from church/fellowship of any kind because I felt something was wrong with the way Christians were presenting the 'message.'
When a long-time friend of mine recently expressed his new-found faith to me, I felt myself drawn to the Christian section of my favorite bookstore, and it was The Secret Message of Jesus that jumped off the shelf and into my hands!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am a musician/songwriter and I am declaring myself back and ready to spread the message of the dream of God!
Again, thank you!
... Music to an author's ears!
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A question on truth …
Here's a question that I receive quite often ...
Dear Brian-
We met briefly the other night when you were ... in Glasgow, Scotland. It was great to finally get to hear you in person...
Just a quick question that I wanted to ask you but didn't get a chance to at the Q & A session after you spoke:
With the postmodern culture and shift in ideas becoming more and more widespread, we see an increase in popularity of the ideas of moral relativity and relative truth/ relativism. Alongside of this, we can see a growing trend in the belief that words have no meaning in themselves, it is just our cultural upbringing and connotations that give meaning to our words. How do we as followers of Jesus respond to the current cultural trends and yet still communicate the truth of the gospel to people? Is it just in our actions or what can we verbally communicate to people in this day and age?
Thanks so much for your time and I understand that you are busy and may not immediately get back to me.
Reply below the jump ...
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