From Hebrew scripture (New Revised Standard Version).1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a tim...

Immanuel Kant (1724 -1804) was a German philosopher. Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher. Moral system Consequentialism: An action is right if it produces best consequence Deontology: An action is right if it follows a moral rule Virtue Ethics: An action is right if it is what a...

In For Praying Out Loud: Interfaith Prayers for Public Occasions (Boston: Skinner House, 2003), used with permission. SPIRIT OF ALL GIFTS AND GRACE We are not ungrateful—not all the time. We know that life is a precious gift. Though we would appear at times to squander it, remember the ways we do...

Spirit of Life and Love, Bless me with a generous heart A generous heart that knows how to give... When I feel as though I do not have enough to share, When I feel unappreciated, When I believe my gifts will fall short of what is needed, expected or desired, When my enemy is in need of mercy,...

Spirit of Life, I give thanks for the opportunities to love that present themselves in the turmoil of life. When the light catches the tears in another's eyes, where hands are held and there are moments without words, let us be present then, and alive to the possibility of changing....

"[Grace]... is God's granting Salvation not in reward for the moral worth of the human but as a free and undeserved gift of love." William S. Babcock, Christian scholar "To trust the context—the place in which we must live out our lives—to trust in spite of the chaos and the tragedy, rather than...