Quest October 2022
October 2022
“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.” —Joseph Joubert
Articles
At the Water’s Edge
Down the cliffs to the black sand of the Pa’iloa beach, and right on the shore, was an opening. Read more »
tikkun olam
Most Sunday evenings, members of the Church of the Larger Fellowship with internet access gather for an online worship service. Read more »
At the Water’s Edge
Down the cliffs to the black sand of the Pa’iloa beach, and right on the shore, was an opening. Read more →
Sacrifice
What is the value of sacrifice? What are its downsides? Read more →
tikkun olam
Most Sunday evenings, members of the Church of the Larger Fellowship with internet access gather for an online worship service. Read more →
The Wisdom Of Trees
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This month we are taking on the gnarly topic of sacrifice. It is a concept that makes many of us uncomfortable, distrustful and a little bit surly, and rightly so. Read more →
American Sacrifice
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Sacrifice is a powerful, ancient, evocative word that conjures images of animals slaughtered in rituals to bind a community together in a celebratory feast for a long-awaited harvest after a drought. Read more →
Always Faithful
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I have learned about faithfulness and sacrifice as a result of a very strange journey I have been on since I inadvertently found some of the men who were in Vietnam with my older brother, 2nd Lt. Robert M. Christian Jr., “Bobby” to me, who was killed on April 11, 1969. Read more →
From Your Minister
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The roots of violence: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles. Read more →
REsources for Living
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I confess I’ve never been a big fan of the concept of sacrifice. It’s always struck me as kind of punitive, like it’s morally superior to suffer than to enjoy life’s abundance. Read more →
The Sacrifices You Make
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For many of our CLF members, their support is truly a sacrifice—not only members on fixed incomes who give what they can, but also our incarcerated members, for whom even the price of a stamp to write to a pen pal is a significant sacrifice. Read more →