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The words spoken by Jesus in Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12 “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, is generally referred to as the ‘Golden Rule’. This Rule can be applied over a range of situations: 1. being merciful vs. being unkind, 2. loving vs. being apathetic, 3. forgiving vs. blaming, 4. selflessness vs. being selfish.
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Not so long ago we were reading the words that the angel spoke to the shepherds on that first Christmas morning, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people” (Luke 2:10). For “good news” to be good news it must contrast with some bad news.
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Contrast, in photography, refers to the difference in brightness or color or focus between different parts of an image and adds depth and texture. There is tonal contrast, which involves the interplay of highlights and shadows, and color contrast, which highlights between different hues. The effective use of contrast can transform an ordinary snapshot into a striking photograph that grabs the viewer’s attention and conveys powerful emotions.
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The other day I listened to an online discussion among three prominent public intellectuals. Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, and Sam Harris. They were lamenting the current destruction of what they considered the positive aspects of Christendom. Interestingly the uber-atheist Richard Dawkins, the author of the book “The God Delusion” recently made a similar point on his social media.
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The other day I listened to an online discussion among three prominent public intellectuals. They were lamenting the current destruction of what they considered the positive aspects of Christendom. In their initial academic pursuits, they each had been attracted to the foundational principles of what we could call secular humanism as the substrate that could provide what was needed to produce a moral and ethical society. Now they weren’t so sure, in that the ideas rooted in that substrate were not producing the fruit that they had hoped for but a crop of poisonous ideologies that were hollowing out Christendom.
