bible and theology on Privacy

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

In a series of sermons for the Lenten season, pastor and author John H. Baumgaertner shares one of the greatest moments that can ever happen to a pastor, though, in truth it is available to all who ha...

The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Love to be unknown.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Our inclination is to reveal to God only what we feel comfortable in sharing. Naturally, we want to love and be loved by God, but we also want to keep a little corner of ourselves, where we can hide a...

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

In shalom, each person enjoys justice, enjoys his or her rights. There is no shalom without justice. But shalom goes beyond justice. Shalom is the human being dwelling at peace in all his or her relat...

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

A traveler, between flights at an airport, went to a lounge and bought a small package of cookies. Then she sat down and began reading a newspaper. Gradually, she became aware of a rustling noise. Fro...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Rest is a matter of wisdom, not law.

In October 2014 Wired magazine reported on the dirty work every social media company must somehow handle: moderating the deluge of exploitative, degrading content posted in unimaginable quantities aro...

So it is that in most Western industrialized countries church and society have lost their identity, religion has become more and more a private affair, and morality has become secular. This process af...

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

Practicing confession is one way to guard against paternalism in both extreme and more subtle ways. For example, we can tell stories of justice in a way that discounts other people’s agency—that is, t...

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community, to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in...

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

Let him who possesses a field, so partake of its yearly fruits, that he may not suffer the ground to be injured by his negligence; but let him endeavor to hand it down to posterity as he received it, ...

O God, grant that whatever good things I have, I may share generously with those who have not, and whatever good things I do not have, I may request humbly from those who do.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.