Capitalism is a natural outcome of our efforts to work and succeed in the world. However, unregulated capitalism is like a virus that kills the innocent.
Religion without concern for the present is useless; all who seek God in a broken world should avoid it.
One of the primary purposes for the institutional church is to remember the poor with a systematic effort to lift them up into the flourishing of a society’s structures.
Idealism is unethical because it cannot address the complicated reality of human need. Idealism is the weapon of religious extremists; it blinds their humanity and erupts in violence.
Idealism is by nature extreme, it calls for unbending laws, laws that lack awareness of the human condition. It is a bipolar world of extremes like heaven and hell. But the mercy of God endures forever.
The experience that has most impacted my life (at this point) is the dissolution of a settled life brought on by the mental decline of my first wife. Within the next decade she would abandon our marriage to return to the Philippines and live the conflicted life of a vagabond. In time, COPD and Myeloma cancer would slowly deprive her of independence and culminate in her passing.
