Category: Inspirations

Are we wise enough to follow the best practices of our ancestors to “Be Prepared.”  Or are we committed to the foolishness of conventional wisdom that says, “It won’t happen here.  It can’t happen to me.”

The core of this issue of “Whittlings” is a sermon preached in 1989 at the First Baptist Church of Littleton MA.  But the intended audience then and now was and is all of humanity that is hell-bent on destroying the creation within which we live and move and have our being.

Saturday April 30, 2022
Creation Justice Retreat

Sunday, March 20, 2022
Sermon and an Interview with Ken Whitt
“All For Free!”  Isaiah 5

My Improbable Encounter with E. Stanley Jones

He felt obliged to see himself as having responsibility for the whole world, for as he saw it, that is precisely what a Christian is supposed to do.  From the introduction to “30 Days With E. Stanley Jones, John E. Harnish, Read the Spirit Books, 2022.

Widely consided to be on par with Billy Grahmn
As the greatest global evangelists of the 20th century
E. Stanley Jones was also a social prophet on par with Walter Rauschenbusch
As one of the most influential social justice prophets of the 20th century.

Friends, I begin with an apology to any readers who were looking for an issue of Whittlings during the month of December. I had lots to say, but no time to say it.

How Do We Become Trauma Resilient?
How Do We Recognize and Find Healing from the Traumas that Possess Us?
How Do We Help Others Become Trauma Resilient?
How Do We Help Others Heal from the Traumas that Possess Them?
Why Are These Important Questions More Urgent that Ever?

by Sophie Brickman: “Mothers tend to assume the majority of child-rearing responsibility. But without communities and multigenerational living setups we wouldn’t have survived as a species…”

Ken writes about rediscovering our love for the world’s beauty as a contributing columnist for Read the Spirit, an online magazine.