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humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.

Maria Popova • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

No person, whoever he or she is or wherever he or she lives, is denied the grasp of God’s heart. We are cherished by God, hunted by God, redeemed by God. And having experienced this, we are reminded that we are called to be bearers of God’s love and truth, and, as bearers, we are to bring that love and truth into our culture, where there exist the

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more

Three Goodnesses

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The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.

At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more

God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

A list of 25 Principles of Adult Behavior by John Perry Barlow

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The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

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Maria Popova • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Three Goodnesses

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

A list of 25 Principles of Adult Behavior by John Perry Barlow

starkandmain.org • Celebrating a Life on Fire: Remembering Luis Palau — Stark & Main